Do not write / post anything objectionable / offensive - Management writes to BSNLEU.

The CHQ of BSNLEU has received a letter from the Corporate Office through email today. In that letter, the Management has directed the General Secretary of BSNLEU to refrain from writing or publishing any obiectionable / offensive material in the journals/ websites/ correspondences/ communications. BSNLEU has not written or posted anything objectionable or offensive against the Management or the Government. However, BSNLEU criticises the anti- worker and anti- people policies of the Management and the Government. We do not know how such criticism is being viewed as objectionable or offensive. Freedom of expression has been enshrined as one of the fundamental rights in the Indian Constitution. The Indian Constitution has not been made invalid so far, we believe. In the Ramlila Maidan Incident v. Home Secretary, Union Of India & Ors. case (2012), the Hon’ble Supreme Court had stated, “Citizens have a fundamental right to assembly and peaceful protest which cannot be taken away by an arbitrary executive or legislative action.”