It is not the PM's job to take journalists on foreign trips!?
To this I said, if you do that, you will have a bad relationship with the media. He asked again why that would be the case. media giants send their own representatives to cover the tour. We don't need to worry about their fund. There is no need to carry them on our flight itself. Then I said I can't sir this will cause problem. For this, they should do it again. Note what I said. No journalists accompanied the prime minister on the official tour. That's it.' they said. It was his decision. Nripendra Mishra said that the same was the end.
During his first visit to bhutan as prime minister in 2014, only a handful of journalists from state-linked media outlets such as television and some news organizations were taken. During the previous UPA government, leading journalists of the media used to travel in the Prime Minister's official aircraft. In prime minister Narendra Modi's first few trips, only a handful of journalists were taken. Modi was not at all fond of the tradition of taking more than 30 journalists from national and regional media with him.