{"id":51590,"date":"2016-01-30T16:56:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T23:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=51590"},"modified":"2016-01-30T17:08:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T00:08:29","slug":"jfa-denounces-cm-gogois-comment-on-padma-awardee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/01\/30\/jfa-denounces-cm-gogois-comment-on-padma-awardee\/","title":{"rendered":"JFA denounces CM Gogoi\u2019s comment on Padma awardee"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>\u00a0By Our Correspondent<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Guwahati: Ridiculing Assam chief minister\u2019s comment over Padma award recipients of the State including senior journalist Dhirendra Nath Bezboruah, the Journalists Forum Assam (JFA) expressed shock that a veteran politician like Tarun Gogoi can publicly malign the distinguished personalities, who were declared as winner of Padma Shri by the Union government on the occasion of 67th Republic Day.<\/p>\n<p>CM Gogoi on 28 January 2016, while addressing a press conference at Dispur expressed his displeasure that the Centre had not recognized anyone for Padma awards from the list of Assam government. He also asserted that the Centre had thus (ignoring the State government\u2019s list of 28 personalities) shown disrespect to the federal structure of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The northeast Indian chief minister even questioned, \u2018On whose recommendations were the Padma awards given? Was it Bharatiya Janata Party leaders who recommended the four names chosen for this year\u2019s awards?\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Maligning a senior most author-journalist like DN Bezboruah, who once led Editor\u2019s Guild of India, the chief minister has shown his utter disrespect to the media fraternity,\u201d said a statement issued by JFA president Rupam Barua and secretary Nava Thakuria adding that Gogoi\u2019s outburst never suits his present political position and stature.<\/p>\n<p>The forum also endorsed the reaction of veteran columnist Bezboruah that Gogoi had lately developed a \u2018habit of shooting off his mouth\u2019<\/p>\n<p>and the forum too feels remorseful that \u2018we live in a State where the chief minister talks so irresponsibly\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The JFA finally questioned the commitment of the State government while recommending the name of reputed personalities for various Padma awards in the last 15 years during Gogoi\u2019s chief ministership and commented that\u00a0 personality like Bezboruah should have been offered the honour decades back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Ridiculing Assam chief minister\u2019s comment over Padma award recipients of the State including senior journalist Dhirendra Nath Bezboruah, the Journalists Forum Assam (JFA) expressed shock that a veteran politician like Tarun Gogoi can publicly malign the distinguished personalities, who were declared as winner of Padma Shri by the Union government on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}