Karnataka: Congress Minister Compares Media With Terrorists, Proclaims The Latter Are ‘Better’ 

Priyank Kharge, Minister for Social Welfare in the JD(S)-Congress combine in Karnataka, has courted controversy by comparing the electronic media with terrorists. He described the media as being “more dangerous than terrorists”.

Deccan Chronicle quoted Kharge as saying, “Friends in the electronic media are firing at us in the guise of giving breaking news; the electronic media’s ‘firing’ has spread misconceptions about politics and politicians.”

Furthermore, he stated, “Even terrorists are better than the media, they kill instantly; however the media kills us every day,” Deccan Chronicle reported. He later retracted the statement saying that his objective was to ‘inform’ students of journalism that they have to ‘stand by the truth’.