Jagdeo denies elections link to Sharma suspension

Bharrat Jagdeo

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday denied that the suspension of CN Sharma’s broadcast licence was related to the upcoming general elections saying that timing never crossed his mind and that it was the station’s Programme Manager Savitree Sharma who suggested four months.

He noted that had he stuck with his original thinking of eight months and instituted it in July when the matter first reached him, then timing would have still been an issue.

Jagdeo was responding at an Office