Politicians get direct benefit from owning a news channel. The Congress MLA from Ambala Venod Sharma raised the question of reservation for people of weaker sections irrespective of their caste, in the state assembly on September 12. In no time his own news channel India News Haryana made it breaking news for a couple of hours and interviewed him. Two other news channels, Focus Haryana and Haryana news owned by Congress MP Naveen Jindal from Kurukshetra and Gopal Kanda, Congress leader accused in Geetika suicide case, respectively, did not air even a single line on the issue.