Forbesganj police firing and apathy of Urdu dailies of Bihar Submitted by admin3 on 16 June 2011 - 10:07pm Articles Indian

Muslim By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net, Patna: Urdu media always claims to be the voice of the Muslim community but at l east in Bihar and looking at their coverage of Forbesganj police firing case, it seems Urdu newspapers have become the voice of the state government not unlike English and Hindi media. The apathy and negligence showed by Urdu media in cover age of Forbesganj police firing belie their claims to be voice of the Muslims an d proves that they are failing in even simple journalism task of covering storie s of importance. The terrible incident took place on June 3 in Muslim dominated village Bhajanpur under Forbesganj block in Araria district of Bihar. The villagers were protesti ng against blocking of a road that they have used for a long time, by an upcomin g glucose factory when police opened fire upon them killing 4 people including s ix-month child and five-month pregnant women. The worst part of the incident was home guard Sunil Kumar Yadav who stomped and kicked still alive Mustafa Ansari while other police officers looked on. The vid eo that captured the horrible scene may bring tears into the eyes of those who h ave beating hearts. In short, the incident was a worst example of khakhi terrori sm against the minority, violation of human rights, women rights and child right s. Despite these facts, the issue it seems was not important for Urdu media. They d id not show interest in highlighting the brutal incident and failure of the stat e government. They failed to publish pictures of the victims of the incident and also they did not bother to send their reporters to meet the villagers and publ ish any news gathering the ground-level facts. Even they did not try to know the painful stories of the injured in the incident being treated at PMCH in the sta te capital despite all the Urdu dailies have their head offices here. Bihar with about 17% Muslims (2001 Census) is one of the most Muslim populated s tates in the country. Majority of them depends on Urdu newspapers when it comes to connect with rest of the state. But due to lack of coverage, they might be un aware of the seriousness of Forbesganj incident which has created long-lasting t rouble for the natives of the area. This analsysis of Urdu dailies follows the same pattern adopted by Dilip Mandal in his analysis of Hindi dailies on their coverage of Forbesganj firing. Rashtriya Sahara, largest selling Urdu daily in the country, did not give import ance to the incident at all. Leave alone publishing the news on front page, it d id not even publish any news about Forbesganj firing in its sixteen-page edition on 4th June the day after the incident. In later days, it only published the statements of the opposition parties and so me organizations that too on their inside pages. Yes, the news about judicial en quiry announced by Nitish Kumar managed to find space on the front page. Have a glance at the five big news headlines on front page of Rashtriya Sahara U rdu, Patna addition, from 4th June to 13th.

Date Banner headline 2nd headline 3rd headline 4th headline 5th headline News about Forbesganj firing June- 4 Hama Jahat talimi traqqi keliye Rs.14.5 crore manzoor Nitish model ko pure mulk main apnane ki zaroorat: Naushad Ahmad, Chief of Bihar Minority Commission Baba Ramdev ka Satyagraha shuru Malegaon dhamaka: NIA ki report tayyar Election Commissioners ne jayedad ki tafsil jari ki No news June- 5 Ramdev ne hokumat per itemad shikni ka ilzam lagaya Dron hamle main Ilyas Kashmiri ki mot Maoists ne Gaya main do logon ka ighwa kiya Gaya main BDO ki pitayi More than half part of the first page dominated with commercial advertisements

No news June- 6 Intermediate ke imtihan main larkiyun ne bazi mari Riyasat main talaba shagrkari mansoobe ka aghaz Mere encounter ki sajish thi: Ramdev Darbhanga main dawa tajir ka qatl Parliament ka hangami ijlas bolayajaye: Advani Forbesganj mamla per Governor ko Congress ka memorandum (In brief news box) June- 7 Doctor qatl ki janch CBI se hogi, Forbesganj firing ki adalati janch karayi jaye gi: Nitish 8 IAS Jamui DM samet 8 IAS tabadla Markaz aur Delhi sarkar ko Suprem Court ka notice Ramdev ko thag kahne per mamla darj (Digvijay ke khilaf) Rishwat lete do sarkari mulazmin giriftar News about judicial enquary June- 8 Awam Khaja Gharib Nawaz ke dikhaye huye raste per chalen: Manmohan Singh Bihar main sarmayakari ka mahol bana hai: Nitish Baba Ramdev ke griftari ki tayyari Maran barat hoker rahega: Anna Forbesganj ki adalti janch hogi: Bihar cabinet (in brief news box)

June- 9 Azadi ki doosri larayi 16 August se: Anna Ramdev ne 11 hazar ki sena banana ka elan kiya High Court ne Kanimozhi ki arzi musterd ki Tamil nadu main bus main aag lagne se 22 logon ki mot Pathrao main CO aur thana incharge zakhmi No News June- 10 Beej Bill kisaan mukhalif: Nitish Ek July se teachers ahliat test form ki frokht Wazir Azam ke pas sirf 2 crore ka fix deposite Maqbool Fida Husain ka Inteqal . Wazir Aala ka China dorah 12 June se No News June-11 Tejarati mafad se upper uthe media: Sahara Shri Wazir aala ke hathon 312 poloon ka iftitah Bihar administrative service ke 14 afsaran ka tabadla Chhattisgarh mainbaroodi surang dhamaka, 10 jawan shaheed

Rana 26/11 mamla se bari No News June-12 China ki tarqqi se sekhne ki zaroorat:Nitish Ramdev aur Anna se pas-e-parda koi baat nahi Begusarai main firqa warana fasad Mid-day ke sahafi ka Qatl Baba ki bhook hertaal Khatam kerwa ker hi dam loonga: Sri Sri No news June- 13 Larkiyun ne Intermedite Arts main bhi percham lahraya Baba Ramdev ki bhook hertal Khatam Nitish Kumar China kelye rawana Lokpal Bill per naummidi ka badal Peshawar main yake bad digre 2 dhamaka No news Qaumi Tanzeem is second leading newspaper in the state. It has a large number of readers in the state. Though the daily gave more space to the news about the in cident as compared to Sahara, yet it was not sufficient and not the importance t hat the story deserved. The way of its coverage showed as it was a usual inciden t and not a serious one. It too failed to highlight the plight of victims and co uld not show courage to pen down against the failure of Nitish government to con trol police brutality against the poor Muslims as well as not giving compensatio n to the affected people. It did not consider necessary to publish heart-breaking stories of Bhajanpur and the picture of killed people. Surprisingly, its head office is located at walki ng distance of PMCH where some victims are under treatment but its reporter reac hed there after a week that too when a team of Imarat Shariah met them. Even the n it published only the black & white pictures on inside page without an accompa nying news story about the apathy and difficulty they are facing there.

Have a glance at the five big news headlines on front page of Qaumi Tanzeem, Pat na addition, from 4th June to 13th. Date Banner headline 2nd headline 3rd headline 4th headline 5th headline News about Forbesganj firing June-4 Ramdev ki ta marg bhookhartal aaj se Badunwani ke khilaf pura mulk muttahid: Nitish Forbesganj main police firing, 4 hilak Jamhuriat se behter koi nizam nahi: Nitish Bachon ki talim aur suplementry khorak keliye Rs. 38.44 arab manzoor

June 5. Ramdev ke Satyagraha per Bhagwa saya Bhagwa Chola pahanker Ramdev siyasat ker rahe hain: Shanker Aacharya Hokumat aur Baba ne ek doosre per ilzam lagaya Americi dron hamle main Ilyas kashmiri halak Forbesganj police firing main mahlookin ki tadad 6

June-6 Jari rahegi bhook hrtal: Ramdev Bachoon main maholyat ke tahaffuz ka jazba peda Karen: Nitish Ramdev per karway jamhuri qadron ke manafi: Nitish Ramdev RSS ke kanshe per sawar: Ram Vilas Paswan Inter Science main ladkiyun ka dabdaba No news June-7 (Ramdev per)Police karwai per Supreme Court berhem, Hokoomat ko notice Ramdev ke khilaf karwayi ke ilawa koi rasta na tha: Wazir Azam Forbesganj ki Adalati janch hogi: Nitish NDA ka parliyament ka ijlas bulane ka mutalba Forbesganj firing sajish ka natija: Paswan

June- 8. Kala dhan wapas laya jaye: Nitish Uma Bharti ki BJP main wapsi Anna ka Rajghat per Anshan aaj se Mulk ki hama jahat traqqi keliye musalmanon ko reservation zarori: Mulayam Ramdev ke jayedad ki janch hogi

Forbesganj firing ki adalati janch per Kabina ki mohr (brief news box) June-9 15 August tak qanoon nahi bana to tahreek: Anna Ramdev ne mosallah foj bane ka elan kiya Ramdev ne sena bani to karwayi hogi Ramdev per hamle ke khilaf BJP ka mulkgir ehtejaj Badunwani mukhalif qanoon main tabdily zaroori: SC No news June-10 Namwer Mosowwir Maqbool Fida Hussain ka inteqal Kisan Mukhalif Bij Bill qabile qabool nahi Ramdev ke trustoon ka sermaya Rs.1100 crore Urs-e-Ajmeri main lakhon ki shirkat Ahsanuddin Amanullah Patna high court ke judge moqarrer No news June-11 CBSE 10 win ke natayej main grade system ki jeet Governor ke sath wazir aala ki taweel goftogoo Ek sath 312 poluno ka iftitah Forbesganj firing main halak bachhe ko Rs. 3 lakh:Nitish Chhattisgarh main baroodi surang ka dhamaka, 10 jawan shaheed

June-12 Wazir Aala Chin dore per rawana Aala talim ke director J P Singh hataye gaye Dantewara main Naxal ka ek aur hamla Benazir qatl case main Pervez Musharraf ke khilaf warrant Forbesganj firing ke khilaf Congress karkunan ka muzahira

June-13 Wazir Aala 7 roza dore per chin pahunche Intermediate Arts main larkiyun ka dabdaba Ramdev na ansun tora, aakhri dam tak larne ka ahad Lokpal Bill per faisla Parliament ka Ikhtiyar-e-aala: Pernab Peshawar main 2 dhamaka, 36 halak

Pinadar is the third prominent Urdu daily published from Bihar. It too took the incident lightly and went on the same way of avoiding to highlight seriousness o f the incident and the government s failure in providing compensation and punishment of police involved. The daily seems more eager to appease the state government. Have a glance at the five big news headlines on front page of Pinadar, Patna add ition, from 4th June to 13th. Date Banner headline 2nd headline

3rd headline 4th headline 5th headline News about Forbesganj firing June-4 Badunwani khatam kerne keliye thoos qadam zaroori: Miera Kumar Badunwani ke khilaf pura mulk bedar: Nitish Mulk ki tariqqi keliye Nitish model zaroori: Naushad Ahmad Waqf Board ki zamin per Mukesh Ambani ka Bangla Forbesganj main police firing, 4 halak

June-5 Dhokebaz kon? Hokumat ya baba Ramdev? Nitish Kumar ab Chin main bhi Bihar ki traqqi ke imkanat talask karenge Dron hamle main Ilyas Kashmiri sathyun ke sath halak UPA mulk ke ittehad keliye khatra; Narendra Modi Kale dhan ki wapsi per markaz sanjeeda: Dr. Shakeel No news June-6 Baba ramdev ka manssoba nakam, Delhi dakhle per pabandi Inter Science main Shambhwi aur Inter Commerce main Shashi sare fahrist

Taraqqiyafta mulk ne maholiyat ko nuqsan pahunchaya: Nitish Zardari ke qatl ki sajish, 42 afrad giriftar Bab ramdev RSS ke mokhuta: Lalu No news June-7 Ramdev mamle main hukoomat ko Supreme Court ka notice BJP laqanooniyat phelane ki koshish ker rahi hai: Congress Forbesganj firing ki adalati janch hogi Baba Ramdev ki tohin Congress ki manhgi paregi: Modi Wazir Aala 12 June ko Chin dore per rawana honge

June-8 Ham nadiyun ko nahi samaj ko jor rahe hain: Nitish Uma Bharti BJP main wapas Forbesganj firing ki adalati janch per kabina ki moher Haj 2011 ke intezamat keliye sub- committee ki tashkil Amir-e-Shariat aur Nazim Imarat Shariah se Dr. Shakeel ki molaqat

June- 9 Bab ramdev ka khoodkash dasta banana ka ilan Hum merte dam tak lerte rahenge: Gaddafi

Forbesganj mamla per aala afsaran ke sath Governor ki meeting Pakistan main dron hamle jari, 23 afrad halak Qanoon Baba ramdev se nipat lega: Wazir dakhla

June-10 Mojawwaza Bij Bill kisan mukhalif: Nitish Ramdev aur Anna ke khilaf hokoomat ka rawayya sakht Maqbool Fida Hussain ka London main inteqal Patna main lakhon rupe ka naqli glucose aur gharyan beramd Waziristan main security choki per janguzuon ka hamla No news June-11 Chin rawangi se qabl Governor se Wazir aala ki molaqat Hokoomat sharab ko acchi chiz nahi samajhti: wazir Forbesganj firing se insaniyat sharmshar hui: Mahesh Bhatt Dehi sarkon ki tamir awwalin terjih: Nitish Baba Ramdev hospital main dakhil Forbesganj firing main maqtool bacche ko Rs. 3 lakh: Nitish (in brief news box) June-12 Wazir Aala chin keliye rawana Muzahiroon per pabandi jamhooriyat ki rooh ke monafi: Sharad Yadav

America Gaddafi ko iqtedar se hatadega ya unhain qatl kerdega: report Lokpal Bill ka mosawwada 30 June tak tayyar hojayega: Moily Chhattisgarh main Naxal hamla, 3 jawan shahedd No news June-13 Wazir Aala delhi se Chin rawana Inter Arts main 88% students kamyab Mahesh bhatt ke bayan per nayeb wazir aala charagh pa Baba ramdev ki bhook hertal Khatam Moqtool doctor ke warison ne moawiza lene se inkar kiya No news It may surprise many that during 10 days (4-13 June) follwing the incident not o ne of the three Urdu dailies wrote a single line in their editorial about the in cident. It is not because there were no points to highlight regarding this incid ent. There were lots of points including why firing was ordered on poor villager s? Why no compensation has been announced? Why guilty police officers are not pu nished? Why Chief Minister or any minster or leader of his party not visited the village? Why injured are not provided with good medical facilities? But editors of Urdu dailies did not go against the Nitish government and they do not want t o earn his anger resulting into losing the advertisements for which these dailie s are paid heavily. There was no important issue in Bihar during these 10 days than Forbesganj killi ng but have a look at the editorials of all three dailies and think how Urdu med ia just like other language media in the sate appeasing the government at the ex pense of the community. Editorial of Sahara: (From 4 to 13 June) June-4: Badunwani ke khilaf ek aur bigal June-5: Carbon ikhraj aur taraqqiyafta mamalik June-6: Yemen main tasadum June-7: BJP ki majlis-e-amla ka ijlas June-8: Yeman do rahe per June-9: Jethmlani ki saf goi June-10: Wazir aazam ki hidayat (waziron ko jayedad ki tafsil aam kerne keliye) June-11: Kale dhan ki wapsi keliye ek aur committee ki tashkeel June-12: Europe Union ka naya formula June-13: Naxal motassira riyaasatoon keliye taraqqiyati mansooba

Editorial of Qaumi Tanzeem: (From 4 to 13 June) June-4: Qimatain qaboo se baher ho rahi hain Duniya ke pasmanda tareen mamalik June-5: Mukesh Ambani ke imarat per tanazua Latini America main ek industani karnama June-6: Baba Ramdev: toti kahan kamond June-7: Taliban-America aman muzakirat Arab sorish aur Israel ke andeshe June-8: Phir Mandir wahin banayenge ka elan Narendera Modi, Zara sambhal ke June-9: Israeli qiyadat main inteshar Yeman main khushi ka mahol June-10: Quran ki tilawat Taqwa Quran centre June-11: Alwida! Maqbool Fida Hussain June-12: Baba Ramdev: Mustaqbil ke andeshe June-13: Banjer araziyun ko terjih di jaye Editorial of Pindar: (From 4 to 13 June) June-4: Baba Ramdev bhi Bhajpa ke dala June-5: Bhajpa ke bhare ke ye tattu (Anna and Ramdev) June-6: Sadhoun ke zariye mulk torne ki koshish June-7: Baba Ramdev ki ye baghawat thi? June-8: Firqa warana tashaddud bill aur BJP ki bokhlahat June-9: Pakistan main Americi dron hamle June-10: Pahunchi wahin pe khak (Uma ki BJP main wapsi per) June-11: Mulk ke waqar ke sath khilwar June-12: Badunwani ke khilaf jung yahan se shoru June-13: Pak & Afghan talluqat main Islah Why media is favoring Nitish Kumar? The answer of this question found in the reply of RTI petition filled by Afroz A lam Sahil that revealed the fact that Nitish Kumar sanctioned a heavy amount for advertisement and increased the rate and ratio of payment during his regime. Th erefore, you would find government advertisement covering full or half page freq uently that was not seen during earlier government. Increase of amount for ad is good step but when it is used for pressurizing medi a to avoid pointing out government s fault that is being done by the government is r eally condemnable. I remember an editor of one of the above mentioned three Urdu dailies was removed from his post because he criticized a leader of ruling part y. Next day a Muslim leader of JD-U called the owner of the daily and asked to r emove the editor from the post or be prepared for losing government ad revenue. The amount Bihar government spent on ad 2005-06 : Rs. 4, 49 crore 2006-07: Rs. 5.4 crore 2007-08: Rs. 9.65 crore 2008-09: Rs. 25.25 crore 2009-10: Rs. 19.66 crore (Till February 2010) Look at the amount spent on ad for the last five years and you will understand a s to why media loves Nitish and cautious to point out his faults. It is said tha t as media plays key role in changing and making atmosphere in favour or against anyone, it helped Nitish Kumar to return to power in 2010 assembly elections th rough presenting his good works and hiding faults and failure. And Urdu media wa s among them. Last year Bihar government (From April to August 2010) spent Rs 28.47 crore on t he advertisement to newspapers and television channels. This was revealed in the reply of a RTI petition filed by RTI activist Purander Sawaran.

Here is detail of the amount gained by Urdu dailies from the government for ads Qaumi Tanzeem--------Rs. 98, 72,810 Rashtriya Sahara------ Rs. 68, 88,915 Farooqui Tanzeem------Rs. 62, 35,314 Pindaar----------------- Rs. 44, 11,220 Inqilab-e-Jadeed--------Rs 20, 57,062 Sangam------------------Rs. 13, 80,890 Links: Analysis of Hindi newspapers: http://mohallalive.com/2011/06/13/dilip-mandal-rea ct-on-farbisganj-syndr... Details of money spent on ads by Bihar government: http://www.bihartimes.in/News bihar/2011/May/Newsbihar10May1.html Share Comment viewing options Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to a ctivate your changes. Well done TCN Submitted by MB Qasmi (not verified) on 19 June 2011 - 5:33pm. Dear Maul. Manzar Bilal Very well done-- keep it up. I would love to thank the entire TCN team along wit h Editor Mr. Kashiful Huda for this exclusive coverage of the inhuman crime comm itted by Bihar police. To say honestly I came to know about this painful story o nly through TCN for the first time and later I tried to follow other so-called m ainstream media reporting. TCN is far ahead than all other media -- both electro nic and print, while exclusively putting this story before the world. The report age above is really good and done professionally. We expect more from TCN team. Wassalam --- MB Qasmi reply Share Request to muslim's leader come-up and help those poor Submitted by nazeer husen (not verified) on 19 June 2011 - 2:42pm. By seeing this news paper's headlines we can easily understand that Muslim's its elf not having interest of this incident. they are only interest about Ramdev fs ting other thing. that why muslim community lagging behind than SC/St communitie s. reply Share Forbesganj police firing and apathy of Urdu dailies of Bihar Submitted by HASHMI (not verified) on 19 June 2011 - 2:38pm. AREY KALM KA FARZ NIBHA TO DETE MEER JAFAR KE BHAIYION , KABA KIS MOU SE JAO GE MEER JAFAR KE BHAIYEON SHARM TUM KO MAGAR NAHI AATI !!!! reply Share The coverage by Urdu

Submitted by Fazal (not verified) on 19 June 2011 - 1:22am. The coverage by Urdu newspapers has always been shameful. Its time that Muslims in India and Pakistan get fluent with ENGLISH. They should also learn Urdu. Hopefully, put the loony toony Urdu dailies out of business in the next 5 years. The authentic caring media let it be English or Urdu will make their work speak for themselves. reply Share an eye opening for all.keep Submitted by eisa (not verified) on 18 June 2011 - 12:19pm. an eye opening for all.keep it up dear. Almighty God bless you for these efforts. Eisa reply Share Muslim leaders are the worst corrupt Submitted by Dravidan (not verified) on 17 June 2011 - 11:44pm. Every Muslim leader is corrupt. Look at the Muslim nations. They kill their peop le happily. Time to time they will scream Bari masjid and Gujarat. Throw some bo nes, they will happily chew and won't bother. reply Share Urdu press coverage Submitted by A B Masoud (not verified) on 17 June 2011 - 6:52pm. Its very good story that reflects the competence and news-nose of these papers' editors.only money is not behind the poor coverage of the police brutality but l ack of understanding of issues as most editors are having non-professional backg round.its tragedy the most of newspapers are run by such incompetent people, so there is no need to imagine what sort of journalism they can pursue. reply Share very good reasearch. Submitted by Zubeida (not verified) on 17 June 2011 - 3:59pm. very good reasearch. congratulations reply Share A MILD REBUKE Submitted by S.M.PASHA (not verified) on 17 June 2011 - 1:49pm. SHAME ON YOU EDITORS OF THE URDU NEWSPAPERS MENTIONED BY BROTHER MANZAR BILAL. T HIS IS THE MILDEST REBUKE OF THE ALL INDIA FORUM OF MUSLIM JOURNALISTS S.M.PASHA

CONVENER reply Share What a shame to read... now Submitted by tasnim faruqi (not verified) on 17 June 2011 - 10:31am. What a shame to read... now whome to blame, look-out for thousands of MEER JAFAR around. Expose them, till they change. Just see a non-muslim Mr. Dilip Mandal 0 989912800 took pain to expose Hindi news media, and we are doing the reverse of it. Disgace. Revive Mr. Shahuddin Muslim India Magazine, which use to highlight such facts and figures., before this media is also banned. Still I see silver li ning here and there. faruqi - an observer - 09810315813 reply Share great work..way to go Submitted by shahzad (not verified) on 17 June 2011 - 10:16am. great work..way to go reply Share Boycott Urdu newspaper for atleast one week. Submitted by Moin (not verified) on 17 June 2011 - 8:12am. Muslims of Bihar should boycott / stop buying Urdu Newspaper(s) for at least one weak, to teach them that their news paper is surving in Bihar just becasue of i ts Muslim readers.