Guwahati, March 27 -- After the arrest of Assam journalist Dilwar Hussain Mozumder and the protest by press bodies, Assam Minister Pijush Hazarika on Thursday questioned the professional background of Mozumder in a tweet directed at the President and Secretary of the Guwahati Press Club.

In a post on X, Hazarika said, "Dear President/Secretary of Guwahati Press Club, will you kindly reveal if Dilwar Hussain is a practising advocate or a journalist or/ also a businessman?"

Journalists of the Guwahati Press Club staged a protest in Guwahati on Wednesday against the arrest of a journalist from an Assam-based digital news portal.

The journalists of the Guwahati Press Club demanded the immediate release of the arrested journalist.

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