The Telangana Congress party has come out with a strange appeal to all its party cadre not to subscribe to Namasthe Telangaana Telugu daily and watch T-News channel, as they are spreading canards against the party.
The daily and the channel are owned by Telagnana Rashtra Samithi president and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and his family and are out-and-out mouth pieces of TRS. Naturally, they try to promote the TRS and run down the other parties, including the TDP and the Congress.
One wonders whether the Telangana Congress party’s call to the cadre to ban KCR’s media houses will serve any purpose.
In Andhra Pradesh, too, Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu has given a similar call to the people to boycott Sakshi for making allegations against him and the TDP. But people continue to patronise Sakshi. So, it is doubtful whether Congress party’s call to boycott KCR media will have any takers. After all, one cannot control the media by making such appeals.
In any case, the media in Telangana and AP are polarised; they are inclined to one party or the other. In Telangana, almost all the media houses have surrendered to the TRS and KCR. So, what is the point in banning the media?
If the Congress feels it is being neglected by the media, it has to start its own media house and propagate its agenda. Is there any other option?
