BJP offers cash-for-coverage

On one side BJP leader Advani is on an action-packed 'rath yatra' show against corruption and black money, but on the other side BJP leaders distributed cash-filled envelopes to journalists at a press conference on Wednesday that was called to outline Advani's rath yatra in Madhya Pradesh.
After Ganesh Singh, the BJP MP for Satna, state PWD minister Nagendra Singh and other leaders released the details of Advani's yatra that entered the state from Hanumana in Rewa district from Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday afternoon, a group of party workers walked up to the scribes and distributed the envelopes. "They told us to accept it," senior journalist Arvind Mishra said. "Instead of finding a press note, I found a Rs 1,000 note. I was at my wit's end." "I returned the envelope to one of the organisers and left the venue," he added