No employee shall in any radio or electronic media broadcast or in any article or documents publish in his own name or in the name of any other person or in any communication to the press, or in any public utterances, make any statements :-
(1) which has the effect of an adverse criticism of any policy or action of the Central Government or of a State Government or of the Authority; or
(2) Which is capable of embarrassing the relations between the Authority and the public;
Provided that nothing in this regulation shall apply to any statement made, or views expressed by an employee, which are of a purely factual nature and are not considered to be of a confidential nature in his official capacity in the due performance of the duties assigned to him;
Provided further that nothing contained in this regulation shall apply to bonafide expression of views by an employee as an office-bearer of a recognized trade union for the purpose of safeguarding the conditions of service of the employees who are members of such trade union or for securing an improvement in the conditions of service of such employees.