PRP Workers attack ABN Andhra Jyothy office.

Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) workers attacked ABN Andhra Jyothy news channel yesterday for allegedly airing news stories against the party and its chief Chiranjeevi. Today, they staged a sit-in and burnt Andhra Jyothi’s  daily news paper copies in front of the newspaper’s office

The party alleged that the channel is airing stories with an intention to damage the image of Chiranjeevi and the PRP which has 18 MLAs in the 294-member State Assembly. Journalist unions and political leaders cutting across party lines condemned the attack.

The channel in its story, said that PRP has become financially weak and was not able to organise protests against Government failures. The channel defended that they aired stories based on the inputs given by some of the PRP leaders. The channel said that the story was based on the version of the official spokesperson of the PRP Vasireddy Padma.

Later, employees of Andhra Jyothy staged a rally condemning the party workers attack on the channel office.

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