Congress Party has asked the country's media to boycott the likes of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray for threatening to shut down Hindi news channels.
"It is my sincere appeal to the media, specially the news channels, to boycott such people who incite separatist ideologies through mass communication. They are in the position to make inflammatory statements because the media displays it in the headlines. If you start boycotting such people, it will put an end to such blatant statements," said party spokesperson Manish Tewari.
Echoing similar views, Congress leader Renuka Chowdhury said, "I don't think Raj Thackeray is qualified to say that the media will be closed, nobody can close down any media no matter how much they wish for it. It is not possible."
However, Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi hit out the Congress for letting Thackeray adopt such an attitude against people of the Hindi heartland.
"I think this entire incident is sponsored by the Congress Party. The regional leader knows beforehand about what letter is being written by the government of Bihar to the government of Maharashtra. The Maharashtra state government and the chief secretary reveal this information later, Thackeray knows things first. So this gives
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