Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Sunday lashed out at television news channels for broadcasting content which pokes fun at political figures and said that the state government is mulling a law to place some restrains on electronic media. Kumaraswamy said that he feels there is a need to bring in a law to regulate television news channels in the country. Addressing a public meeting in Mysuru, he also slammed sections of media for raising doubts about the longevity of the JDS-Congress coalition government headed by him and asserted it would continue with the good wishes of Congress President Rahul Gandhi.

"What do you think of politicians? You think that we are so easily available to be mocked? Who has given you powers to present everything sarcastically," Kumaraswamy asked the channels.

"Whom are you trying to favour by belittling us among the masses? I feel the need to bring in a law," he added. Karnataka CM’s threat of imposing restrictions on media comes days after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Yuva Morcha leader Priyanka Sharma was arrested for sharing a morphed image of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on the internet. She was, however, granted bail by the Supreme Court after a couple of days.

“We are not surviving because of media but because of 6.5 crore people of the state. I am not scared of them (media) at all. I dont care... If I see all the episodes of their stories in the electronic media, I will lose sleep," Kumaraswamy further said in his speech.

Kumaraswamy also criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his pilgrimage to Kedarnath and Badrinath shrines. “When we go to shrines, it is called Temple Run but they (news channels) are clueless when Modi goes to Badrinath (Kedarnath),” he said.

"They said it was not for elections ...then what it was for? Didn’t he sit there because his vote share is shrinking? If not that, then what else is the reason for sitting there meditating on Shiva,” the chief minister asked.