Jammu, Sept. 30 -- The Legislative Assembly witnessed a heated exchange on Wednesday when Social Welfare Minister Sakina Itoo said that while members were voicing concern over social media news channels, the maid of the wife of a sitting member was herself running a news page on Facebook, allegedly used to malign political opponents. She did not name the member.
Itoo urged the Speaker to bar legislators from carrying mobile phones into the House. She also asked that phones be kept out of the visitors' gallery and that people who enter with phones posing as media be stopped.
The discussion began during Question Hour, when Bijbehara MLA Dr Bashir Ahmad Veeri raised the problems caused by certain so-called journalists active on social media ...