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Censor Board chief Leela Samson decides to quit

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Censor Board chief Leela Samson decides to quit

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Leela Samson

Amid reports that controversial film Messenger of God featuring Dera Saccha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in the lead role has been cleared bythe Film Certification Appellate Tribunal (FCAT), Censor Board chief Leela Samson on Thursday said she had decided to resign.

Asked if she was aware of the FCAT's approval for the film’s screening, Ms. Samson told PTI that “I hear so. Nothing in writing yet. It is a mockery of Central Board of Film Certification. My resignation is final. Have informed the [I&B] Secretary.”

There has, however, been no official word on the FCAT decision. The Censor Board had referred the issue of clearance to Messenger of God to FCAT. The film was slated to hit the screens on Friday.

Asked why she has decided to quit, she did not specifically refer to the reported clearance to the film but alleged “interference, coercion and corruption of panel members and officers of the organisation who are appointed by the Ministry”.

According to Ms. Samson she has “had to manage an organisation whose Board has not met for over nine months as the Ministry had no funds to permit the meeting of members.”

She said the term of all the members and the Chairperson of the Censor Board “are over. But since the new government failed to appoint a new Board and Chairperson, a few were given extension and asked to carry on till the procedure was completed”.

“However, recent cases of interference in the working of the CBFC by the Ministry, through an ‘additional charge’ CEO, and corrupt panel members has caused a degradation of those values that the members of this Board of CBFC and Chairperson stood for,” Ms. Samson alleged.


Read more at: Censor Board chief Leela Samson decides to quit - The Hindu
 
2 more south Indians have been ejected by this Govt. Andthe media loyal dogs are barking at Leela for resigning.

Media needs to be a watch dog against the Govt & takethe charges made by Leela instead of pillorying her like Shashi Tharoor

South Indians need to come together & publicly opposethis, otherwise no south Indian can survive at the center.
 
She first blamed I&B ministry for interference, pressure and corruption. When challenged by the minister Rathore (archery gold medalist) to show proof, letter or even an SMS, she changed her tune and gave a different reason for her resignation - grant of clearance for the film. The board has not met even once in the last seven months, she has not seen the film, she has no office (how did she manage for 5 years).
Rathore said on TV, that all appointments were made by the previous govt and the new govt has retained all the old appointments.
 
Leela Samson who is of Jewish/RC parentage was the Bharatanatyam teacher of Priyanka Gandhi..She used this proximity to get key posts in the UPA regime-head of Kalakshetra (where she has shown her anti-hindu bias), Censor Board and Sangeet Natak Academy..These are all political appointments and she should have resigned when the NDA regime took office last May
 
Mass resignations at Censor Board after chief Leela Samson quits

Zee Media Bureau

New Delhi: In an unexpected turn of events, after
Censor Board chief Leela Samson resigned from her post on Friday, as many as nine other members followed suit. After Samson cited interference and corruption as the sole reason for her resignation from the coveted post, nine other CBFC members too opted for resigning in support of the former chief.

Reportedly, the whole controversy erupted after self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh's film 'MSG—Messenger Of God' was given a green signal by the Film Certification Apellate Tribunal (FCAT) on Friday for release. The Censor Board had earlier decided to refer the decision related to clearance to the film in question to the FCAT

Read more at: Mass resignations at Censor Board after chief Leela Samson quits | Zee News
 

Censor Board issue

Jaitley hits back at Samson


Terms CBFC members who quit "rebels without a cause"


Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday hit back at former Central Board of Film Certification chairperson Leela Samson and its other members for “politicising routine issues” and calling them “rebels without a cause.”

Earlier in the day, 12 other members of the Board also tendered their resignations to Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore, who however, denied receiving them.


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Jaitley hits back at Samson - The Hindu
 
Leela Samson who is of Jewish/RC parentage was the Bharatanatyam teacher of Priyanka Gandhi..She used this proximity to get key posts in the UPA regime-head of Kalakshetra (where she has shown her anti-hindu bias), Censor Board and Sangeet Natak Academy..These are all political appointments and she should have resigned when the NDA regime took office last May

Agreed,
Why can't these political appointees quit gracefully when there is a change in Government. No one outside the cloistered society of "elite" will notice the change. The reasons given by the lady looks ridiculous and self exposing.
If the Censor Board could not meet due to interference, why should they accept extension after their period of contract.

Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.
 
Without exception all censor board nominees by ups were modi bashers. It must be known that the new govt has not dismissed any member of any institution.
 
Samson and the caucus has resigned. Good riddance. The quality of censor will improve.

The Government should reverse all earlier political appointments and bring in new people. It is the Government's right and duty. Otherwise such embarrassments will occur frequently.
 
Leela Samson gets flak

The contentious resignation by Leela Samson from the post of Chairperson of Censor Board has stirred a hornet's nest.

Many censor board officials and even former chiefs of the body have come down heavily on her. Many say that it was a wrong act and would set a bad precedent.

Vanathi Srinivasan, Tamilnadu BJP secretary and former Regional Censor Board member, said, 'her resignation was unwarranted. Anyway was a political appointment and obviously she had to go.'

'Had she wanted to reform the system or raise her voice against any kind of interference, she could have done it without quitting the post. Now it comes across just an ill-timed attempt to embarrass the government'.


Read more at: Leela Samson gets flak | News Today
 
The govt is not embarrassed. All institution and people propped up by congress are crumbling on their own. If the bureaucracy is corrected and made accountable, good politicians can achieve a lot, and bad politicians and their subservient chelas have to exit.
 
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