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'''Halla Bol''' ("Raise Your Voice") was a campaign started in 1994 by then Chief minister of [[Uttar Pradesh]] and leader of [[Samajwadi Party]] [[Mulayam Singh Yadav]] against two Hindi newspapers, [[Dainik Jagran]] and [[Amar Ujala]], which together they shared nearly 70 per cent of the Uttar Pradesh state's Hindi newspaper readership. The newspapers remained defiant and stepped up their campaign against the government in response to the anti-reservation agitation in the hills (now Uttarakhand).<ref name=today>{{cite web | title = Belligerent as ever, Mulayam Singh Yadav takes on the press |work= India Today
| url = http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/belligerent-as-ever-mulayam-singh-yadav-takes-on-the-press/1/294420.html |author=Dilip Awasthi|date= 15 November 1994|accessdate = 2014-09-12 }}</ref>

On 12 October 1994 addressing a public meeting Mulayam Singh Yadav denounced the two papers, "Halla Bol", he exhorted his followers, "Commence the storming". Why read them, he told them, you don't have to even see them. No one present had any doubt what they meant: Don't let them be seen, that is what it meant."{{fact|date=March 2019}}

After that call, hawkers and newsagents selling the two papers were attacked by party workers.<ref>{{cite book|title=Frontline|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x6VKAQAAIAAJ|date=December 1994|page=19|publisher=S. Rangarajan for Kasturi & Sons}}</ref> Journalists of the two papers were beaten up. Vehicles carrying Jagran were waylaid and burnt. The house of the editor of Amar Ujala was attacked. Advertisements to the papers were cut. Thousands of copies of the papers were torched. The state government also imposed a ban on the release of government advertisements to the newspapers.<ref name=today/>

The national press did not take note of this assault on the freedom of press. ''[[Hindustan Times]]'' ran an editorial with the headline, "Stop this halla bol".<ref name="Husain1995">{{cite book|author=Zakir Husain|title=Uttarakhand movement: the politics of identity and frustration, a psycho-analytical study of the separate state movement, 1815-1995|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A0BuAAAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Prakash Book Depot|isbn=978-81-85897-17-2}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
[[Category:Censorship in India]]
[[Category:1994 in India]]
[[Category:History of Uttar Pradesh (1947–present)]]
[[Category:Politics of Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Mass media in Uttar Pradesh]]