India tried to influence DN
2015-05-26 22:43
After an interview with Indian President Pranab Mukherjee believes India’s ambassador to the DN has misled the readers.
She has warned the newspaper to the president’s state visit to Sweden likely to be set if the parts relating to the Bofors affair published.
I told the ambassador that we could not meet her demands. The president got involved and upset when the Bofors was mentioned in a question about how we avoid corruption today. Obviously we have to account for his reaction, said chief editor Peter Wolodarski according dn.se.
In the interview, conducted by Wolodarski in the presidential palace, said Mukherjee to bribery suspect around the Bofors was a media trial. He also urged Wolodarski not to use the word scandal.
The interview has sparked debate in India – where the Bofors scandal is still very sensitive. Interviewed in The Times of India, the country’s defense minister would not comment on the president’s statements. Instead, he says only that he has nothing to complain about Bofors cannon quality. They are good, says Manohar Parrikar.
On Tuesday received a letter DN where the ambassador of Sweden expresses New Dehlis “disappointing”. She believes that the DN “misled” readers by short web TV interview from four to three minutes.
Prior to the publication asked the ambassador also explicitly DN to remove everything that was about Bofors, with the warning that the state visit to Sweden liable to be set.
surprised that a representative of the world’s largest democracy, is trying to micromanage what questions we should ask for a head of state, and what answers we must report says Wolodarski.
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