Nitin Gadkari says journalists should accept ‘packages’

Diwali has come. I have one request, keep whatever you get. Eat whatever you can, said Gadkari.

Mumbai | October 6, 2014 07:54 PM IST

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Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has courted a controversy asking journalists to “keep the packages (money) they get during the election season” from Congress and NCP.

“In the next 10-12 days, you journalists will have ‘Laxmidarshan’,” Gadkari said at a poll rally in Sawantwadi in coastal Konkan on Saturday.

“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.

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