BJP controlling a section of media; playing negative politics: Gundu Rao

Mysuru, Aug 11: The Bharatiya Janata Party is controlling a section of the media and playing negative politics with the help of those media, according to Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee working president Dinesh Gundu Rao.

Addressing the party workers at the district committee meeting, he said, a large number of people are in favour of the Congress party according to a survey and thus, the BJP leaders are under fear of a defeat in the upcoming Assembly elections.

“The BJP leaders are following negative politics due to fear and a few media organisation are supporting them. The BJP has released a video of an IT raid conducted on a office in New Delhi in 2012, projecting it to be the video of a raid conducted on the premises of Energy Minister D K Shivakumar. A few TV channels are repeatedly broadcasting the video,” he pointed out.

“The BJP has taken to the social media in a big way to spread false news against the Congress party. The Congress party workers should also become active in the social media to give a fitting reply to the BJP,” he said.

Dinesh said, “The Union government has failed to provide necessary support to the state government and has failed to release the funds. All India Congress Committee vice-president Rahul Gandhi will take part in a party’s conference in Bengaluru on August 16.”