Astounding claim

IN Media Watch Briefs | 25/03/2014

Deepak Chaurasia of India News made the astounding assertion that the politics of throwing things on political opponents has started only after AAP came to power. He said AAP leaders do this to themselves--how else are their pictures immediately tweeted? He was referring to eggs and ink being hurled at Kejriwal’s car in Varanasi. (March 25) In Maharashtra, Shiv Sena rowdies blacken faces of anyone they dislike, and Raj Thackeray’s MNS does the same. Didn't Chaurasia see visuals being flashed by his own photographers, which showed people throwing ink on Kejriwal’s car and then getting into a street fight with AAP supporters?

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