Belligerent BJP

IN Media Watch Briefs | 03/04/2014

While everyone piled onto Arvind Kejriwal for his alleged comment on wanting to 'jail' journos no one seems to object to the daily belligerence of the BJP spokespeople. When Karan Thapar was grilling Ravi Shankar Prasad on Varun Gandhi's comments, Prasad shot back saying the BJP was not bothered about " the increasing intention of Karan Thapar to create trouble". Earlier in the week Madhu Kishwar was yelling at Rahul Shivshankar on News X saying journalists like him who questioned Modi on Godhra, were worse offenders than the criminals themselves.

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