Nitin Gadkari says journalists should accept ‘packages’

“Be it reporters or editors, there are separate packages for reporters, newspapers and their owners,” Gadkari said. “Diwali has come. I have one request, keep whatever you get. Eat whatever you can,” he said.

The state secretariat and legislature journalists association flayed Gadkari’s remarks.

“Gadkari’s comments are highly objectionable,” president of Mantralaya Vidhimandal Vartahar Sangh Pravin Puro said.

“Gadkari has said journalists accept ‘packages’ (for election coverage). Due to such statements, the image of journalists gets dented,” Puro said.