'Paid News'? Mumbai dailies laud Kamat

On March 1, the day after the Maharashtra government legalized slums that came up in Mumbai between 1995 and 2000, several local dailies carried large, adulatory pieces on veteran Congress leader Gurudas Kamat, crediting him with the “achievement”. The articles highlighted Kamat’s proximity to the Gandhi family, and lauded his secular credentials and dedication to his Mumbai North-West Lok Sabha constituency, and to the Congress party. The articles looked and read like political ads, but they weren’t marked as ads in any of the publications.

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