The National Executive Committee of the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) elected K Sreenivas Reddy, a veteran leader of the journalists trade union movement in the country, President of the Indian Journalists Union (IJU), the largest and most representative organisation of the working journalists in the country. The National Executive Committee at its emergency meeting at Press Club of India in New Delhi on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Amar Devulapalli who was appointed as the National Media Adviser by the Andhra Pradesh Government.

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Until Independence in 1947, an overwhelming majority of the country's journalist community was an active participant in the freedom struggle and suffered the same fate as the other freedom-fighters. After Independence, however, the anti-Establishment traditions of the community compelled it to tread a path different from that of the ruling politicians. The contradictions that had developed between the two since the formation of elected provincial governments in 1937 began to sharpen further and journalists found that the time had come to form a trade union organisation of their own.

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