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NEWS CHANNELS INCLUDING NDTV FUNDED BY CONGRESS: PARRIKAR Thursday, 23 January 2014 | Staff Reporter | Panji *Rankled by negative publicity in the media on account of a physical slugfest between two of his MLAs in Delhi, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar went on a tirade against the fourth estate calling them “beneficiaries of the Congress.”* Speaking in a rural Goa township of Quepem located around 60 kms south of Panaji, Parrikar even singled out NDTV for his coverage.“I want to ask these channels in Delhi, where do you get their benefit from? …I know all their money comes from the Congress. I will even name one channel. NDTV. The whole world knows it is a Congress channel. Otherwise these channels will not work. Financially, none of the channels are viable,” said Parrikar. Interestingly, Parrikar himself was a recipient of a ‘National English news channel’ and NDTV’s rival — CNN-IBN’s award for the best politician of the year in 2012.The comments come barely days after the media, quoting Opposition leaders, who vouched for the incident, reported that two BJP MLAs had engaged in an alcohol-fuelled fight in the wee hours of Saturday morning, while they were in New Delhi to attend their party’s recently concluded national executive. The incident in question, took place in Goa Niwas, located in New Delhi’s plush Chanakayapuri area at 3am. The victim MLA who was allegedly at the receiving end of the other MLAs power punches, was treated at Max Hospital in Saket.Sanguem MLA Subhash Phaldesai, who was at the receiving end of the alleged drunken slugfest at the New Delhi-based Goa Niwas in the wee hours of January 18, has however claimed that his injuries are on account of a fall from a flight of stairs at the Chanakyapuri-based State residency.