FNJ President Acharya for protection of democracy, constitution

Kathmandu - Central President of the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) Govinda Acharya has said as the constitution has guaranteed full press freedom in the preamble itself, the constitution must be protected. President Acharya said it during the 19th annual general meeting of the FNJ Kanchanpur chapter here Thursday. President Acharya reminded that FNJ was advocating for press freedom, journalists' rights, rule of law and democracy.

"Irrespective of the changes in political events, there should not be any activities that enfeeble constitution and free press," he stressed, adding that FNJ had also fought for democracy by taking to street. According to him, the FNJ was currently struggling for the rights of working journalists. He shared, "FNJ solved the problems of 550 working journalists." The works were afoot to creating pressure on the concerned agencies for distribution of proportional advertisement.