President-designate of Bharatiya Janata Party  Tamil Nadu unit K Annamalai stirred a controversy with a statement on controlling media and hastened to clarify that he referred to fake news.

Annamalai said,  In the new media space, people run fake news, comment on leaders and misrepresent Centre's policies. It will be controlled now as intermediaries have to declare the person running it, that's what I meant."  He went on to say:  ‘In next six months, you will see that we can bring the media under our control. No media can keep projecting false information continuously. All the media would come under his predecessor L Murugan, who is now Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting."

The video of his speech went viral and triggered a backlash. Annamalai then clarified that he was mentioning the New Information Technology Act. “Once it comes into force, a lot of non-traditional media including people who tweet about political leaders portraying them wrongly will be identified and fake news will be controlled.”

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