Jammu, Feb. 12 -- Taking cognisance of concerns raised by members across party lines over online smear campaigns, Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather on Thursday assured a separate half-an-hour discussion on the issue during the ongoing budget session.

The issue was raised in the House amid allegations that fake social media accounts and politically motivated handles were circulating defamatory content and misleading videos against elected representatives, damaging their reputation and undermining the dignity of the House.

Earlier, the Jammu and Kashmir government informed the assembly that a dedicated media monitoring cell has been established in the Directorate of Information and Public Relations (DIPR) to track and ...