Editors Guild of India condemns 'coup' at Kashmir Press Club, slams J&K administration

Top journalists’ bodies, including the Editors Guild of India (EGI), Press Club of India and Mumbai Press Club (MPC), on Sunday expressed dismay over the “forcible” takeover of the Kashmir Press Club (KPC) by a group of journalists, and demanded restoration of the Club’s registration as a society and early elections.

A group of journalists, headed by Salim Pandit and Zulfikar Majid, had on Saturday arrived at the KPC office in Srinagar and appointed themselves as a new body.

The development came just a day after the Registrar of Societies put in abeyance its own registration issued on December 29, 2021 to the Club, after the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), CID, Srinagar, put on hold the verification process of the members of the management of the Club. Earlier, the Club, set up in 2019, had announced elections for a new body on February 15.