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In Orissa, journos take full time to politics with startling results, says TSI's Dhrutikam Mohanty

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Orissa is by no means an oasis. In Karnataka, Tejaswini Gowda, a 42-year-old journalist and talk show host on a Kannada TV channel, humbled 'humble farmer’ HD Deve Gowda in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections. Her margin of victory against the former Prime Minister: a comfortable one lakh. Now rumours are rife that Tejaswini is seriously considering a BJP offer.

Back in the 1950s, veteran Kannada journalists like Dinakara Desai, Ranganath Diwakar and HK Veeranna Gowda demonstrated that they understood their politics well by winning Lok Sabha seats. Diwakar even served as Union Information Minister in Nehru’s Cabinet.

Sanjay Nirupam is today known as a hard-hitting politician, but in the not-too-distant past, he was editor of Shiv Sena mouthpiece, Samna (Hindi). Likewise, Sanjay Raut, editor of Samna (Marathi), is also an MP.

Many stalwarts crowd this field. In Kolkata, Saeed Malihabadi, editor of Azad Hind Daily is now a Rajya Sabha MP. Bihar’s Ali Anwar, a veteran reporter, became a political activist and was nominated by Nitish Kumar to the Upper House in 2006. The other shining example of this 'genre' of journalism is Nai Duniya editor, Shahid Siddiqui, for years with Mulayam Singh Yadav as a Rajya Sabha member, but lately with Mayawati. Like others, for Shahid too, politics and journalism remains entwined.

Undoubtedly, the most outstanding examples of this transition remain Chandan Mitra and Rajiv Shukla.

It is therefore no surprise that even Page 3 celebrities have "PRESS" stickers on their windscreens. They have been told it pays to be a journalist these days.


With inputs from Subrat Swain in Delhi


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