New Delhi: Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari Saturday slammed the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi over the expose about alleged state-sponsored stalking of a young woman and demanded an explanation from BJP president Rajnath Singh. Indirectly, without mentioning Modi’s name, Tewari on Saturday said, "a great evil stalks" the land following an allegation of stalking in Gujarat on the orders of former minister Amit Shah who did it for his "saheb".

Manish o saturday said at a seminar in Vigyan Bhavan on the role of media in serving public interest on the occasion of National Press Day "As we go about upholding constitutional values and go about our chores, dark clouds of fascism loom ominously over the horizon, a great evil stalks our land".

He further said "The first casualty of the society would be the constriction of liberal space, curtailment of creativity and circumscribing the right to challenge convention and think off the beaten path.