NEW DELHI: India’s home minister has threatened to “stamp out” journalists who have been “trouble mongering” ahead of national polls due by May, underlining pressures on the media during a bitter election campaign.

The comments by Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, criticized by social media and opposition parties, came after a former army chief referred to reporters recently as “presstitutes.”

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