A senior leader of India’s ruling coalition has expressed support to the ongoing strike of Nepal 1 television journalists and has pledged help, protesting journalists said.

Director of the International Federation of Journalists Asia Pacific Regional Office, Jacqueline Park, expressing her solidarity with journalists of the Nepal 1 Television who are in an indefinite hunger strike with a 20-point demands in Kathmandu, Sunday, May 06 07. nepalnews.com/rh

Director of the International Federation of Journalists Asia Pacific Regional Office, Jacqueline Park, expressing her solidarity with journalists of the Nepal 1 Television who are in an indefinite hunger strike with a 20-point demands in Kathmandu, Sunday, May 06 07. nepalnews.com/rh
Leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Sita Ram Yechuri talked to Rishi Dhamala, one of the three Nepal 1 journalists who have been carrying out hunger strike, over the phone on Sunday and expressed his solidarity to the strike, Dhamala claimed. Dhamala told media persons that Yechuri also gave assurance that he would ask the Indian government to put pressure on the television management to meet the demands forwarded by the protesting journalists.

The agitating journalists started fast-unto-death from Saturday after the television management failed to respond even after the 48 hours of hunger strike.

In the meantime, the Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ) today said it would organise one-hour sit-in at the Kathmandu office of the television channel to extend solidarity to the strike of the journalists. The sit-in would be organised on Sunday afternoon.

The TV channel, which is being telecasted from New Delhi, has its contact office in Kathmandu.