What has happened to media, asks Arvind Kejriwal
22 Jan 2014 5:39 AM IST
Asking what has happened to the media, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday accused a section of it of promoting the BJP and the Congress. ‘What has happened to the media? I am not saying that all media people are bad. But there are some who are promoting the politics of BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) and Congress,’ he said, addressing hundreds of supporters of the one-year-old Aam Aadmi Party outside Rail Bhavan.
‘Channels conducted a poll yesterday (Monday) and over 80 per cent supported our agitation and have said that what Kejriwal is doing is right but many channels have termed our agitation as anarchic,’ he said. Kejriwal went on to blame ‘owners’ of media organisations for the biased coverage, accusing them of being either supporters of BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi or Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi. The discontent with the media took an ugly turn on Tuesday afternoon when a reporter of Hindi news channel along with her cameraman were allegedly manhandled by some AAP volunteers for allegedly reporting about problems faced by citizens due to the agitation.
‘Channels conducted a poll yesterday (Monday) and over 80 per cent supported our agitation and have said that what Kejriwal is doing is right but many channels have termed our agitation as anarchic,’ he said. Kejriwal went on to blame ‘owners’ of media organisations for the biased coverage, accusing them of being either supporters of BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi or Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi. The discontent with the media took an ugly turn on Tuesday afternoon when a reporter of Hindi news channel along with her cameraman were allegedly manhandled by some AAP volunteers for allegedly reporting about problems faced by citizens due to the agitation.
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