Shockingly, instead of condemning the intimidation and heckling of the journalists, some Twitter users supported the act and even stated that they should be beaten up.
Congress leader Manish Tewari said that he has been the Union Information and Broadcasting Minister in the past and he knew for how much the conscience of journalists could be purchased.
The Editors Guild has today issued a statement condemning the violence unleashed upon journalists in Mamata Banerjee led West Bengal during 2019 Lok Sabha Elections.
This is about a larger problem of a certain caravan of ‘election astrologers’: journalists posing as ‘experts’, speaking with little regard for the truth and getting away with it
Even as Rahul Gandhi continues to indulge in empty photo-ops where he is seen "helping injured" journalists, at an election meeting in Tamil Nadu, a photo-journalist was thrashed by Congress workers for taking pictures of empty chairs