Shivraj Chouhan's awards

IN Media Watch Briefs | 21/04/2015

The BJP governments in the states are more enamoured of journalists than the ruling politicians at the Centre. On Sunday even as the prime minister was turning on the media, CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Madhya Pradesh was giving away three different awards to various journalists from Delhi and from his state. Ten days before that he had conferred an award on a senior editor of the Indian Express, which carried a prize of Rs 2 lakhs.

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