Following the unfortunate death of Basavaraj and the subsequent misinformation peddled by media groups targeting the BJP leader and businessman Vijay Sankeshwar, the family members of the deceased teacher have come out in public to quell the misinformation about his death.

Online publications like The Wire and Scroll.in seem to have more of a problem with BJP's characterization of the post-election violence, than the actual post-poll violence itself.

Media used comments made by bureaucrat with the same name to spread propaganda against Union Minister Piyush Goyal.

NDTV's Soumit Mohan has since deleted his tweet, but has not apologised for justifying violence.

The anchor now claims that the hoodlums seen in the video sent to him belonged to a different political party and not the Shiv Sena.