Mahabalipuram's reality show

IN Media Watch Briefs | 10/02/2017

There are news cameras all along the coastal road along the famous temple beach town of Mahabalipuram in the outskirts of Chennai. Scores of print and TV and digital journalists are trying their best to breach the resort where 130 AIADMK legislators are said to have been herded and kept from  Wednesday by aspiring chief minister V K Sasikala. Journalists have tried to enter the resort legally, illegally and some of them have even tried to reach it from the sea route ! It's like a 'Reality Show" House..said Shiv Aroor of India Today channel.              

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