Srinagar: Press Club Leh has urged Police of register a case against Bharatiya janata Party State President Ravindar Raina and MLC Vikram Randawa accusing them of trying to ‘bribe scribes’.
The journalist body wrote a letter to police saying that BJ P had held a presser in local hotel in Leh on May 2.
“After the press conference was over, BJP leaders including State President Ravinder Raina, and MLC Vikram Randhawa tried to bribe media persons by offering us money in envelopes,” the scribes have alleged.
They said that the attempt to bribe scribes was done ‘to use our platform to influence the outcome of the elections’.
“We did not accept the offer and rejected it outrightly and we showed our anguish at their attempt, (sic),” reads the letter sent to SHO Leh.
The journalist’s of Ladakh have condemned the incident and have asked to register the FIR against Raina and Randhawa for ‘violating Modal Code of Conduct and also for attempt to bribe journalists of Ladakh’.
“We would provide all the necessary support whenever required,” they said.
