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New Delhi: A 30-second clip of a woman reporter asking question at a press conference in Lucknow which was being addressed by Uttar Pradesh chief minister Adityanath, who later chose to leave the stage without responding, has gone viral on social media, raising questions, once again, about press freedom in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled state. She later reportedly alleged that she was heckled by BJP workers.

In the clip, a female reporter named Divya Srivastava, who is said to have been employed at a news channel, can be seen as saying, “Mr Chief Minister, this is a press conference and you are not even responding to a question. Why did you call for a press conference? Only so that we get to hear what you are saying?” 

Srivastava can be seen as holding a mobile phone trying to record this face-off herself as chief minister Adityanath and other........

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