Solapur: After setting off a major controversy on Monday by threatening to ‘crush’ the electronic media, Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde today said he was referring to social media and not making any comments on journalism.
I was referring to social media and the violence incited against students from the Northeast in Hyderabad and Karnataka. My comments were not about journalism, he clarified, while speaking at the Youth Congress event in Solapur in Maharashtra.
On Monday, Shinde had said, I am aware of what is happening in the electronic media. In the last four months there have been efforts by the media to provoke the Congress. We will crush such elements in the electronic media, which are indulging in false propaganda, if it does not stop. I have the intelligence department under me. I know who is doing such things. I know what is happening. Some forces are behind this.”
Certain elements in the media orchestrate ‘nasty designs’. We have been working silently to place checks on them, but there was a campaign from them over the past four months. We are now going to crush these elements in the electronic media spreading false propaganda, Shinde added.
Bureau Report
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