Shocked to learn of the raids on 30 journalists in Delhi and arrests of several of them: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on “NewsClick” raids

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Shocked to learn of the raids on 30 journalists in Delhi and arrests of several of them. These are not the actions of a “mother of democracy” but of an insecure and autocratic state. Why does a government as strong & authoritarian as this one is, feel threatened by a news website? And that too, one that is not even ranked very high in reach or readership? Intolerance is unworthy of everything that India represents. The government has disgraced itself and our democracy today tweeted Congress MP Shashi Tharoor