Pawan Kalyan, as part of is ongoing tweet war with media channels especially TV9 and ABN, released yesterday a document evidence that shows TV9 owner Srini Raju donating party fund of one crore rupees to TDP in 2009. Of course it is a big amount and it is paid in white. Probably Pawan Kalyan wanted to establish the nexus between TV9 Srini Raju and TDP party which he has been alleging in last few days. But there has been mixed response to this tweet.

Pawan Kalyan fans and Jana sena supporters are happy with this as there is some documentary evidence against Srini Raju that establishes he is a supporter of TDP and they hope this will send strong signal to people. However other people think it other way round. It is common thing that, most of the corporate companies donate money to multi parties. Same corporate companies at national level donate funds to BJP, Congress and communist parties. Same way Srini Raju also might have donated to TDP as well as Congress. Moreover, he might have donated to PRP as well in addition to TDP and Congress in 2009. In case Srini Raju supporters come up with some sort of proof or even remark without proof about Srini Raju donating fund to PRP as well in 2009, it will be a big blow to Pawan Kalyan arguments.

But the main problem here is – media also is running like any other corporate company doing business. Even though it is a business, media has a special responsibility towards society and that’s why it is called fourth estate. Gone are the days when media owners refuse government advertisements as they lose the right to question government once they depend on these govt ads.Now media not only accepting government advertisements happily, but also donating funds to multiple political parties like all other corporate companies, expecting some favous after those parties coming to power. This is definitely not a good trend in democracy.