The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is influencing people’s minds by controlling media organisations through various means, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member M.A. Baby has said.
Opening a debate on ‘The Kerala agenda of the RSS and the media’ organised by Keluettan Centre for Study and Research here on Monday, he said the Sangh had its own media organisations for propagating its ideas. “It has also placed people who toe the Sangh line of thought in key positions of major media organisations. Efforts are being made to control the stakes in independent media organisations through capitalists who are close to the ruling regime,” Mr. Baby claimed.
Quoting former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower who coined the term “military-industrial complex” to denote the link between military and the defence industry, the CPI(M) leader said that we might have to add media also to this nexus. “Because in India, there is a strong bond between the finance capital, the ruling government with fascist characteristics, and the media,” Mr. Baby said.
