Press Council of India chairperson Markandey Katju on Sunday said the media should restrain itself in criticising the newly formed Akhilesh Yadav government for two years. Talking to reporters here,Katju said even before Akhilesh had taken oath as chief minister,the media started terming the criminal incidents in the state as return of goondaraj,which is not appropriate. Akhilesh is a young and foreign-educated chief minister. He himself is taking action. He is suspending (workers). Do not demoralise him now. Let him settle down, he said,adding that the media should say something about him after one or two years. Katju,who was in Lucknow to inaugurate a mushaira organised by Hindi-Urdu Sahitya Award Committee,Uttar Pradesh,reiterated his statement that Anna Hazare lacked scientific ideas. He said Annas movement will die slowly because people cannot end corruption by just shouting Bharat Mata ki Jai and Inquilab Zindabad. Answering a question about the medias role in Hazares movement,he said the media was following Anna because of the number of people with him and as the people will stop following him media will also do the same. He said there were several issues which are affecting common men and the media should focus on them instead of following the affairs of Bollywood actors.
