Mamata slams media for spreading distorted information

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Press Trust of India Kolkata
Last Updated : Jan 21 2013 | 1:05 PM IST

"It is utterly unfortunate to see that two three negligible channels are disseminating distorted and concocted information at the behest of certain business interests," Banerjee said on her Facebook page.

"This is totally unwarranted in a democratic set-up," she said and added "I condemn this mis-representation of information from such spineless and negligible section of channels".

Her comment came in the backdrop of reports that Trinamool Congress was conducting back-channel negotiations with the Congress to diffuse the situation arising out of TMC's ultimatum to the UPA government to roll back the decisions on diesel price, LPG and the FDI in retail.

  

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First Published: Sep 17 2012 | 8:45 PM IST

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