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BJP treats scribes as hawkers Journos take serious note 12/9/2014 11:58:28 PM Kunal Shrivatsa Early Times Report JAMMU, Dec 9: It seems that after attaining power at the centre, the state unit of the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has become so bigheaded that it is not even shying away in dictating instructions to media persons in winter capital of the state. For publicizing its assembly poll related activities, the BJP has established a Media War Room at posh Gandhi Nagar locality of the city but an email sent from its Media centre contained a very peculiar communication which was not at all taken in good taste by the media fraternity particularly reporters of various newspapers. Though the Media War Room was perceived to micro-manage the party's day to day activities during the campaign for the assembly polls, the gentlemen overlooking the affairs of the special unit perhaps consider the media persons working for different organizations as their personal property. The Media fraternity got startled Monday afternoon when they received a message in their e-mail inboxes from the BJP Media War Room wherein the party sought news items and other such publications related to BJP to be dropped by none other than the reporters representing different media houses at its make shift media centre. In what could be described as height of 'obduracy' on part of the BJP as the message from [email protected] treads, "Please drop publication of your newspaper at BJP Media War Room, 18 A/C Gandhi Nagar, Near Shaurya Motors, Govt. Hospital Road on daily basis." The message itself reflects that the state unit of the BJP considers reporters as hawkers who should deliver a copy of the newspaper they represents. It looks like the Incharge BJP Media War Room in particular and party leadership in the state in general may not be aware that they are dealing with the reporters not street hawkers who would dance according to their whims and fancies. If the BJP and its media centre is so keen to get itself abreast of what has been published or carried by various newspapers then it should either engage a hawker who could drop published copies or should depute a person to collect the different sets of newspapers from the newspaper stands. Calling upon reporters to furnish their publications is not only unethical but it also exhibits the 'arrogance' of the BJP which has not even dithered to take such liberty.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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