Minister for Information and Communication Krishna Bahadur Mahara said on Saturday that special code-of-conduct would be introduced for journalists in order to make the ‘mission of the constituent assembly successful’.

Asking journalists to work towards making constituent assembly election a success, he informed that the government plans to “bring together private and government journalists and media persons”. He didn’t elaborate what he really meant by that.

He also claimed that both private and government media are “not free”, as the “private ones are swayed by their business interests and the government media is tightly controlled by the government”.