What friends are for

IN Media Watch Briefs | 01/05/2014

Support for the BJP's Arun Jaitley in his bid for the Amritsar seat apparently cuts across political and editorial affiliations. Keeping him company as Jaitley filed his nomination was Shobhna Bharatiya Chairperson of the Hindustan Times Group. Other media friends pitched in with 'exclusive' interactions with him, duly broadcast on India TV's Aap Ki Adalat, Times Now's Frankly Speaking and on CNN-IBN's prime time coverage on the elections in Amritsar.

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