Even as Samajwadi party leader Akhilesh Yadav was promising that goondagiri would not be allowed a 100 journalists were reportedly held hostage in Jhansi by his party's workers. The only channel to pursue the story initially was NDTV 24x7, which asked Yadav what he was going to do about the situation. Thereafter Star News scored by getting footage of the scuffle between the BSP workers and SP workers there, and the news that the journalists had managed to come out. The channel reported that in other UP towns too, such as Ferozabad and Meerut, journalists had been attacked.