Parties owning newspapers should acknowledge it: BRS MLC Kavitha

Addressing a meeting of the Telangana Union of Working Journalists (TUWJ) on Sunday, Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLC Kavitha Kalvakuntla said if a political party owns a newspaper, it should acknowledge the same.

Speaking at the meeting, which was attended by several delegates from the Indian Journalists Union (IUJ), Kavitha acknowledged that her party runs a newspaper called ‘Namaste Telangana’, which helps disseminate her party’s ideology to the masses.

She alleged that some local dailiies, which do not come clean on their political leanings, run news stories that goes against the interests of Telangana.