Ananth Kumar Hegde sparks another political row; calls newspaper, tv channels editors as urban naxals

Union Minister Ananth Kumar Hegde triggered yet another political row by calling editors of certain newspapers and tv channels as urban naxals.

Anant Kumar Hedge

Karnataka: Union Minister Ananth Kumar Hegde trigerred yet another political row by calling editors of certain newspapers and tv channels as urban naxals. The BJP leader made this comment while addressing an event at Sirsi in Karnataka's Uttara Kannada district on Monday. As per ABP news, sources gathered that Hedge in his address at the event hit out hard at certain newspaper and television editors whom he blamed with tarnishing the image of politicians and the country. The Union Minister was quoted saying - I will tell you what will be telecast on channels. The people (reporters) who're sitting here haven't changed but it's those who are above them, the urban naxals. They do all these things these people don't even know what goes on the top. These people send the news and they know which part to cut, which to twist and play. Those urban naxals write to distort the image of netas and our country. It is because of their conspiracy these things are happening in our country. It is not for the first time that Hedge has courted controversy. He hogged media limelight for the wrong reasons after he called Congress president Rahul Gandhi a hybrid specimen which can only be found in Congress laboratory where the father and the son are of two different types. Addressing an event in Uttara Kannada district, Hegde questioned Gandhi’s Brahmin lineage and said Gandhi has no clue about religion and added that how come the son of a Christian mother and Muslim father can claim to be a Brahmin.