Delhi: Financial help provided to the families of journalists Aamir Salim Khan and Roshan Ali Baig, Munne Bharti said – the campaign of help will continue
Many organizations working in the interest of journalists working in the field of journalism are active in the country. The Okhla Press Club, which was born during the Corona period in Delhi’s Okhla area, made a grand entry by sanitizing the houses of social workers along with hundreds of journalists in the area. fell down Along with this, the work of delivering goods worth lakhs of rupees to the homes of the needy in the area was done very well. The role of M Atharuddin Munne Bharti, founder of Okhla Press Club and senior journalist of NDTV, has been important. Now his campaign is to provide financial help to the families of journalists on their death. Which started in Delhi after the death of Urdu daily Hamara Samaj editor Aamir Salim Khan, his family got 1 lakh rupees and after the death of Roshan Ali, senior journalist of English Daily Millennium Post due to heart attack, his family got financial help of 50 thousand rupees. Apart from this, arranged for free IS coaching to his daughter, this free IS coaching was arranged by Dr. Muzaffar Hussain Ghazali, the general secretary of the organization and senior journalist.
Okhla Press Club’s core committee includes group editor of Urdu daily Sajid Wazood, Parvez Ahmed (senior journalist BBC), Voice of America reporter in India Suhail Anjum, Deutsche Welle Germany (Urdu) editor Javed Ahmed, Doordarshan News senior Journalist Shaila Nigar, Senior Journalist Dr. Muzaffar Hussain Ghazali, Syed Ruman Hashmi, Zaheer Ul Hasan, Bharat Express (Urdu) Group Editor Khalid Raza Khan, Sadhbhawna Today Hindi Daily Editor-in-Chief Saifullah Siddiqui, Jamshed Iqbal (Aaj Tak), Sajid Ashraf ( News Nation), Millat Times Editor in Chief Shamsh Tabrez Qasmi, Asia Times Editor in Chief Ashraf Bastavi, among others.
Okhla Press Club Chairman Journalist M Atharuddin Munne Bharti told this reporter that Okhla Press Club was established to protect the interests of the journalists of the area, when the journalist was on the road during the Corona period and could do his journalism in a fair and fearless manner. At that time, in order to save his family from Corona, the Press Club got the houses of social workers along with hundreds of journalists living in Okhla completely sanitized. The club stood by his family. Facilities were provided to his family over a phone call. In this way the campaign continued, and now as part of this campaign, after the death of the journalist, the initiative of financial help to his family has been started. Whose initiative to reach out to the families of late journalist Aamir Salim Sahab and late journalist Roshan Ali Baig Sahab and stand with them is a link which will continue even further.
He further said that when the journalist is no more in the world, his family has to face a lot of helplessness, at that time the journalist fraternity needs to stand with him. Bharti appealed to the journalists to join Okhla Press Club (+91 9858-22-23-24) and take forward the campaign with more strength.
