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^^ Looks like the BJP dream of fighting corruption is over.Badal and Chautala the most corrupt in the NW India will be their allies
BJP dream is not fighting corruption but developing India.
When India gives 272+ votes to BJP, then it can question BJP about relationship with Badal and Chautala. Politics is the art of the possible.
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Foreign brokerages are betting on Narendra Modi becoming India’s prime minister in the next general elections in 2014.
Chris Wood of CLSA was the first to endorse Modi, when he said the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate is the only hope for the stock markets.
“The Indian stock market’s greatest hope in this respect is the emergence of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate. While the odds are definitely stacked against him, our view is the worse the sense of crisis the better Modi’s chance of winning,” he had told The Economic Times in an interview.
Following this, scores of foreign brokerages released research reports with similar views. The latest was Goldman Sachs
“Equity investors tend to view the BJP as business-friendly, and the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi as an agent of change,” the report said, resulting in angry reactions from Congress leader and Commerce Minister Anand Sharma.
“Goldman is parading its ignorance about the basic facts of Indian economy; and it also exposes its eagerness to mess around with India’s domestic politics,” he told The Economic Times in an interview.
He also said the bank should do its business and not mess around with Indian politics.
The minister’s remarks expose the desperation of the Congress, for one he has no right to say that an investor – even if it is Goldman Sachs which has a good amount of ill-fame to its credit – should not speak about political situation in a country. If it is parking crores of funds in a country, it would want to take a view about the political risk there.
But, at the same time, a reality check on foreign brokerages’ Modi bets is also warranted.
Will he be able to put economy on top of everything else and push through a clean agenda for the country? After all, as the head of a coalition led by the BJP, he will also dealing with the similar pressures that the Congress faced.
Until now, there has been no instance in the history when the BJP acted like a responsible and constructive Opposition in Parliament. Had it been, it could have spotted the coal scam. It is to be remembered that coal block allocations have been happening for long and the NDA was in power from 1999 to 2004.
That is why Jim Rogers’ comment on Goldman Sachs, the BJP and Congress is significant.
“Everybody who has had anything to do with running India in the past so many years have failed India,” he has told the Mint in an interview. Running a country is not only the ruling party’s responsibility. The onus falls on the opposition too.
“Has the BJP said or done anything revolutionary, or said anything different? They say we like business people better than Congress, but can they do anything other than making some cosmetic changes?” he asks.
Add to this the divisive nature of the BJP’s politics. Modi’s ascension has only accentuated its polarising image. There are many who fear under his prime ministership India’s social fabric will get damaged further. This too is a political risk.
In other words, both the Congress and the BJP carry the same amount of political risk. Foreign brokerages that endorse Modi now are just overlooking this fact.
Read more at: Here is why foreign brokerages’ Modi bet is hollow | Firstpost
Chris Wood of CLSA was the first to endorse Modi, when he said the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate is the only hope for the stock markets.
“The Indian stock market’s greatest hope in this respect is the emergence of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate. While the odds are definitely stacked against him, our view is the worse the sense of crisis the better Modi’s chance of winning,” he had told The Economic Times in an interview.
Following this, scores of foreign brokerages released research reports with similar views. The latest was Goldman Sachs
“Equity investors tend to view the BJP as business-friendly, and the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi as an agent of change,” the report said, resulting in angry reactions from Congress leader and Commerce Minister Anand Sharma.
“Goldman is parading its ignorance about the basic facts of Indian economy; and it also exposes its eagerness to mess around with India’s domestic politics,” he told The Economic Times in an interview.
He also said the bank should do its business and not mess around with Indian politics.
The minister’s remarks expose the desperation of the Congress, for one he has no right to say that an investor – even if it is Goldman Sachs which has a good amount of ill-fame to its credit – should not speak about political situation in a country. If it is parking crores of funds in a country, it would want to take a view about the political risk there.
But, at the same time, a reality check on foreign brokerages’ Modi bets is also warranted.
Will he be able to put economy on top of everything else and push through a clean agenda for the country? After all, as the head of a coalition led by the BJP, he will also dealing with the similar pressures that the Congress faced.
Until now, there has been no instance in the history when the BJP acted like a responsible and constructive Opposition in Parliament. Had it been, it could have spotted the coal scam. It is to be remembered that coal block allocations have been happening for long and the NDA was in power from 1999 to 2004.
That is why Jim Rogers’ comment on Goldman Sachs, the BJP and Congress is significant.
“Everybody who has had anything to do with running India in the past so many years have failed India,” he has told the Mint in an interview. Running a country is not only the ruling party’s responsibility. The onus falls on the opposition too.
“Has the BJP said or done anything revolutionary, or said anything different? They say we like business people better than Congress, but can they do anything other than making some cosmetic changes?” he asks.
Add to this the divisive nature of the BJP’s politics. Modi’s ascension has only accentuated its polarising image. There are many who fear under his prime ministership India’s social fabric will get damaged further. This too is a political risk.
In other words, both the Congress and the BJP carry the same amount of political risk. Foreign brokerages that endorse Modi now are just overlooking this fact.
Read more at: Here is why foreign brokerages’ Modi bet is hollow | Firstpost
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Modi, Media and Money
The interplay of these three ‘M’s is doing Indian democracy a gross disfavour
BY Sandeep Bhushan
MEDIA HALO Modi arrives for a National Media Workshop organised by the BJP on 17 August in Delhi (Photo: RAUL IRANI)
Is news television all about TRPs? Or is it an agenda of some kind? Or is there a third dimension? As I sat down to write this piece, my brief was how the Indian media—especially television news—was covering Narendra Modi.
There were no clear-cut answers. And here is why.
“Modi does not need either the party or PR agencies; television news media is doing the job for us,” confides a senior BJP leader. Asked if this is acceptable in a democracy, he replies: “Hasn’t the media done the same with Rahul Gandhi?”
SPINNING MODI’S IMAGE
That very evening, as I sat watching Aaj Tak, the popular Hindi news channel, I could see what the BJP leader meant. The 10 o’clock show—news bulletins are passé—had this lead story on how Bihar CM Nitish Kumar of the JD-U was trying to stymie Modi’s Patna rally by deliberately hosting the President of India (who later changed his Patna programme) on the same day. What struck me was the brazen spin-doctoring by the scruffy-faced, long-winded anchor. His argument ran as follows: Nitish Kumar’s main objective was not to thwart Modi’s rally per se, but prevent its staging at Patna’s historic Gandhi Maidan, right in the heart of the city. Every successful rally here in the past has signalled the end of political regimes not just in Patna but in Delhi as well. This had happened in the 1970s during the JP Movement and later in 1989 when VP Singh led an anti-corruption campaign.
As we now know, nothing even vaguely of the sort happened. But such spin doctoring in subtle and unsubtle ways—endless airtime to Modi speeches, ‘colour’ stories on ‘NaMo tea’, kurtas and masks (one newspaper even claimed it is a Rs 500 crore industry!), you name it—is pretty much the norm across news networks these days. And this stems from the peculiar beast that television has become, with ‘bites’ driving the news cycle. Of course, there is a pattern to it. First, a montage of bites reflecting neat bipolarities—the Congress versus BJP, for example—which then merges seamlessly into a news studio where the anchor has rounded up partisans reflecting identical divisions. It is here, in the studio, that the nightly drama plays out with the anchor doubling as a sort of a ringmaster who provokes, hectors and lights the fireworks towards a scripted denouement.
With reporting dead, and bite collection mainly outsourced, there is no need for a field report to check political claims against reality. For instance, I don’t remember seeing any field report on malnutrition in Gujarat despite the issue becoming the subject of a bitter studio war between the two parties. Or the recent toilet versus temple controversy that was decried as ‘manufactured’. Is this news or primetime entertainment? Or simply the gross trivialisation of serious issues confronting our democracy?
Since the TV media ecosystem feeds on bites, it allows for imprecision, fudging, backtracking, denials and endless controversies that all serve to make spin doctoring child’s play. This is not easy in the print media, which lives up to at least a modicum of precision.
The only clarity in this chaos is the increasing clout of media promoters with their biases and preferences.
Several past and serving employees of the media behemoth Network 18 have told me that a heavy-duty ‘go-soft-on-Modi’ campaign is underway within the group. The editorial line is allegedly emanating from the ‘top’. A former anchor with IBN 7 traces the changes in the network’s ‘line’ to a specific event. They came about only after Mukesh Ambani picked up a stake in the media group. “Arvind Kejriwal was virtually blacked out after he hurled charges at Mukesh. On the news floor, in both CNN-IBN and IBN 7, every journalist knows that there are orders to rein in anti-Modi stories,” he adds. “There are standing instructions to cut live to any Modi rally or speech,” says another journalist.
However, Rajdeep Sardesai, editor-in-chief of CNN-IBN, trashes all this. “This is all cock and bull,” he says, “There has been no change in line at any time. Both Rahul and Modi are top contenders for the PM’s post. We neither deify nor demonise either of them, but analyse their pluses and minuses in great detail.”
But if Sardesai is right, then how does one explain the cloyingly pro-Modi chant on the group’s news portal, Firstpost.com? Here is a gem masquerading as reportage: ‘Delhi on Sunday witnessed a public rally the likes of which it had not seen in decades’, thanks to Modi’s ‘rock-star’ image that created a ‘maddening frenzy’. Another story headline screams: ‘JD(U) MP makes Nitish squirm: Are you jealous of Modi?’ This article, on Shivanand Tewari’s recent speech in Rajgir praising Modi’s ascent, has little explanation of the ‘jealousy’ angle. Yet another so-called report on the website gushes: ‘Patna blasts showed Modi’s leadership, Nitish’s ineptness.’
R Jagannathan, editor-in-chief of Firstpost, defends the group website by saying, “We are essentially an opinion portal. We also carry news. We have different editors who are free to air their own views. As the editor-in-chief, I don’t interfere.” On the Ambani factor, Jagannathan says, “I report to Raghav Bahl and there are no specific editorial instructions from him.”
While Ambani’s alleged ‘directive’ is in all likelihood driven by the fear of a ‘Third Front’ that he presumably shares with the business class at large—remember, both Modi and Rahul Gandhi are the only ones to be hosted by industry bodies CII and Ficci—media houses like Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd (BCCL), which owns The Times Of India, have other impulses driving them. They only produce what sells. And, like Anna Hazare earlier (whose movement fetched higher TRPs than even the IPL), Modi sells. And he sells because of mounting urban angst over the UPA’s corruption and leadership woes, not to forget the outrage over dynasts and votaries of entitlement politics. What BCCL’s Vice-President Vineet Jain told the American journalist Ken Auletta of The New Yorker last year, “We are not in the newspaper business. We are in the advertising business,” holds true for a powerful section of the media.
That largely explains the BJP predilections of the group’s TV arm,Times Now. This news channel’s latest poll survey—conducted by C-Voter—of the BJP’s poll prospects following Modi’s anointment as the party’s PM candidate is a case in point. The survey gives Modi the thumbs up. The conclusions are identical to what C-Voter had predicted in an earlier survey for the India Today Group before Modi’s elevation, where it had forecast a ‘doubling of BJP seats’ if he were made the candidate. It is hard to understand why C-Voter keeps getting high-profile polster projects despite its dismal track record. Each time, it has projected inflated figures for the NDA/BJP. In 2009, it had predicted 183-195 seats for the NDA. It got only 159. Five years earlier, in 2004, it had projected 270-282 seats for the NDA. It managed only 181.
As a reporter on the BJP beat, I remember party spokespersons holding up impromptu press briefings for a Times Now reporter to arrive. Much to our chagrin, the channel had better access to BJP leaders and was invariably the first to get a coveted ‘exclusive’ sit-down interview with Modi (or any other BJP leader). Its anchor Arnab Goswami’s interrogative, offensive and subjective style of anchoring, done in the Fox News mould, is shrill and minimalistic. It reduces issues to a simple formula of ‘for’ and ‘against’, of neat binary oppositions, since this works better with TV audiences, but it also tends to carry a ‘hidden’ preference for a ‘muscular’ state.
What this loud and vituperative media drumbeat has done is create ‘a sense of inevitability’. “It has helped to rescale Modi from a regional Gujarati satrap, a state never considered very significant in national politics, to a potential national leader,” says Santosh Desai, a marketing guru and social observer.
BEAT WARRIORS AS POLARISERS
One of the disturbing downsides of this Modi froth is that it has not just polarised the ‘nation’, his party and the political landscape, but also the media. Remember the BJP leader’s quip with which this story began? As I wrote in this magazine some months ago (see ‘Remote Mindset’ Open, 15 June 2013), reporting on the Gandhis for NDTV, where I worked earlier, was like a complicated Brahminical ritual. Only a chosen few were allowed to report on their public activity and still fewer took editorial calls on the storyline that eventually went on air; the ‘buck’ stopped with Barkha Dutt, the absolute repository of Congress wisdom.
More to the point, my report elicited a slightly surprising response from my friends and colleagues. A good friend and Congress reporter called me up to remonstrate: “Why don’t you write the same about Modi? Don’t the BJP reporters do the same with him?”
This is the big tragedy for reporters of politics at a time of sharp political polarisation. The bitterness appears to have rubbed off on beat reporters, a number of whom are self-confessed ‘beat warriors’. Loyalty to one’s beat overpowers the journalist’s obligation to purvey accurate information to people at large.
The schism often plays out in TV studios. Some senior journalists are not averse to standing in for their ‘respective’ parties when partymen want to duck the press (as happened during the Robert Vadra episode). This has meant that space for journalists occupying the middle ground has alarmingly shrunk. Any objectivity that involves criticism of Modi or Gandhi is met with charges of being fellow-travellers and ideologues of one or the other party.
This pseudo bipolarity, a fallout of what BJP leader Arun Jaitley terms a ‘presidential style’ election campaign, is dangerous for democracy. It is a way of batting for both the national parties that resent the rise of regional parties that eat into their vote share. This bipolarity, which has willy-nilly seeped into our media discourse as well, leads to major distortions. While Modi’s meeting with TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu hit ‘national’ headlines, the 11-party meet in Delhi against communalism on 30 October, seen by many as a step towards a non-Congress, non-BJP alternative, was virtually blacked out by TV networks.
It also means that wherever the Modi-versus-Gandhi drama cannot be played out, you simply forget about it. Readers could be pardoned if they did not know that Assembly polls are also scheduled in Mizoram next month.
What is staple fodder for anchor-orchestrated drama in news studios is a far cry from the complex reality that shapes electoral outcomes in this country. One of the most powerful players in next year’s election drama is the urban middle-class, which appears to be rooting for Modi. But, as Desai says, media overkill so early in the run-up to the General Election of 2014 could lead to “diminishing returns and viewer fatigue” as we inch closer to the actual polling dates.
The larger issue, however, is an ethical one. Is the media accurately chronicling for its readers and viewers the unfolding drama of democracy so that everyone can make an informed choice?
Modi, Media and Money | OPEN Magazine
The interplay of these three ‘M’s is doing Indian democracy a gross disfavour
BY Sandeep Bhushan
MEDIA HALO Modi arrives for a National Media Workshop organised by the BJP on 17 August in Delhi (Photo: RAUL IRANI)
Is news television all about TRPs? Or is it an agenda of some kind? Or is there a third dimension? As I sat down to write this piece, my brief was how the Indian media—especially television news—was covering Narendra Modi.
There were no clear-cut answers. And here is why.
“Modi does not need either the party or PR agencies; television news media is doing the job for us,” confides a senior BJP leader. Asked if this is acceptable in a democracy, he replies: “Hasn’t the media done the same with Rahul Gandhi?”
SPINNING MODI’S IMAGE
That very evening, as I sat watching Aaj Tak, the popular Hindi news channel, I could see what the BJP leader meant. The 10 o’clock show—news bulletins are passé—had this lead story on how Bihar CM Nitish Kumar of the JD-U was trying to stymie Modi’s Patna rally by deliberately hosting the President of India (who later changed his Patna programme) on the same day. What struck me was the brazen spin-doctoring by the scruffy-faced, long-winded anchor. His argument ran as follows: Nitish Kumar’s main objective was not to thwart Modi’s rally per se, but prevent its staging at Patna’s historic Gandhi Maidan, right in the heart of the city. Every successful rally here in the past has signalled the end of political regimes not just in Patna but in Delhi as well. This had happened in the 1970s during the JP Movement and later in 1989 when VP Singh led an anti-corruption campaign.
As we now know, nothing even vaguely of the sort happened. But such spin doctoring in subtle and unsubtle ways—endless airtime to Modi speeches, ‘colour’ stories on ‘NaMo tea’, kurtas and masks (one newspaper even claimed it is a Rs 500 crore industry!), you name it—is pretty much the norm across news networks these days. And this stems from the peculiar beast that television has become, with ‘bites’ driving the news cycle. Of course, there is a pattern to it. First, a montage of bites reflecting neat bipolarities—the Congress versus BJP, for example—which then merges seamlessly into a news studio where the anchor has rounded up partisans reflecting identical divisions. It is here, in the studio, that the nightly drama plays out with the anchor doubling as a sort of a ringmaster who provokes, hectors and lights the fireworks towards a scripted denouement.
With reporting dead, and bite collection mainly outsourced, there is no need for a field report to check political claims against reality. For instance, I don’t remember seeing any field report on malnutrition in Gujarat despite the issue becoming the subject of a bitter studio war between the two parties. Or the recent toilet versus temple controversy that was decried as ‘manufactured’. Is this news or primetime entertainment? Or simply the gross trivialisation of serious issues confronting our democracy?
Since the TV media ecosystem feeds on bites, it allows for imprecision, fudging, backtracking, denials and endless controversies that all serve to make spin doctoring child’s play. This is not easy in the print media, which lives up to at least a modicum of precision.
The only clarity in this chaos is the increasing clout of media promoters with their biases and preferences.
Several past and serving employees of the media behemoth Network 18 have told me that a heavy-duty ‘go-soft-on-Modi’ campaign is underway within the group. The editorial line is allegedly emanating from the ‘top’. A former anchor with IBN 7 traces the changes in the network’s ‘line’ to a specific event. They came about only after Mukesh Ambani picked up a stake in the media group. “Arvind Kejriwal was virtually blacked out after he hurled charges at Mukesh. On the news floor, in both CNN-IBN and IBN 7, every journalist knows that there are orders to rein in anti-Modi stories,” he adds. “There are standing instructions to cut live to any Modi rally or speech,” says another journalist.
However, Rajdeep Sardesai, editor-in-chief of CNN-IBN, trashes all this. “This is all cock and bull,” he says, “There has been no change in line at any time. Both Rahul and Modi are top contenders for the PM’s post. We neither deify nor demonise either of them, but analyse their pluses and minuses in great detail.”
But if Sardesai is right, then how does one explain the cloyingly pro-Modi chant on the group’s news portal, Firstpost.com? Here is a gem masquerading as reportage: ‘Delhi on Sunday witnessed a public rally the likes of which it had not seen in decades’, thanks to Modi’s ‘rock-star’ image that created a ‘maddening frenzy’. Another story headline screams: ‘JD(U) MP makes Nitish squirm: Are you jealous of Modi?’ This article, on Shivanand Tewari’s recent speech in Rajgir praising Modi’s ascent, has little explanation of the ‘jealousy’ angle. Yet another so-called report on the website gushes: ‘Patna blasts showed Modi’s leadership, Nitish’s ineptness.’
R Jagannathan, editor-in-chief of Firstpost, defends the group website by saying, “We are essentially an opinion portal. We also carry news. We have different editors who are free to air their own views. As the editor-in-chief, I don’t interfere.” On the Ambani factor, Jagannathan says, “I report to Raghav Bahl and there are no specific editorial instructions from him.”
While Ambani’s alleged ‘directive’ is in all likelihood driven by the fear of a ‘Third Front’ that he presumably shares with the business class at large—remember, both Modi and Rahul Gandhi are the only ones to be hosted by industry bodies CII and Ficci—media houses like Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd (BCCL), which owns The Times Of India, have other impulses driving them. They only produce what sells. And, like Anna Hazare earlier (whose movement fetched higher TRPs than even the IPL), Modi sells. And he sells because of mounting urban angst over the UPA’s corruption and leadership woes, not to forget the outrage over dynasts and votaries of entitlement politics. What BCCL’s Vice-President Vineet Jain told the American journalist Ken Auletta of The New Yorker last year, “We are not in the newspaper business. We are in the advertising business,” holds true for a powerful section of the media.
That largely explains the BJP predilections of the group’s TV arm,Times Now. This news channel’s latest poll survey—conducted by C-Voter—of the BJP’s poll prospects following Modi’s anointment as the party’s PM candidate is a case in point. The survey gives Modi the thumbs up. The conclusions are identical to what C-Voter had predicted in an earlier survey for the India Today Group before Modi’s elevation, where it had forecast a ‘doubling of BJP seats’ if he were made the candidate. It is hard to understand why C-Voter keeps getting high-profile polster projects despite its dismal track record. Each time, it has projected inflated figures for the NDA/BJP. In 2009, it had predicted 183-195 seats for the NDA. It got only 159. Five years earlier, in 2004, it had projected 270-282 seats for the NDA. It managed only 181.
As a reporter on the BJP beat, I remember party spokespersons holding up impromptu press briefings for a Times Now reporter to arrive. Much to our chagrin, the channel had better access to BJP leaders and was invariably the first to get a coveted ‘exclusive’ sit-down interview with Modi (or any other BJP leader). Its anchor Arnab Goswami’s interrogative, offensive and subjective style of anchoring, done in the Fox News mould, is shrill and minimalistic. It reduces issues to a simple formula of ‘for’ and ‘against’, of neat binary oppositions, since this works better with TV audiences, but it also tends to carry a ‘hidden’ preference for a ‘muscular’ state.
What this loud and vituperative media drumbeat has done is create ‘a sense of inevitability’. “It has helped to rescale Modi from a regional Gujarati satrap, a state never considered very significant in national politics, to a potential national leader,” says Santosh Desai, a marketing guru and social observer.
BEAT WARRIORS AS POLARISERS
One of the disturbing downsides of this Modi froth is that it has not just polarised the ‘nation’, his party and the political landscape, but also the media. Remember the BJP leader’s quip with which this story began? As I wrote in this magazine some months ago (see ‘Remote Mindset’ Open, 15 June 2013), reporting on the Gandhis for NDTV, where I worked earlier, was like a complicated Brahminical ritual. Only a chosen few were allowed to report on their public activity and still fewer took editorial calls on the storyline that eventually went on air; the ‘buck’ stopped with Barkha Dutt, the absolute repository of Congress wisdom.
More to the point, my report elicited a slightly surprising response from my friends and colleagues. A good friend and Congress reporter called me up to remonstrate: “Why don’t you write the same about Modi? Don’t the BJP reporters do the same with him?”
This is the big tragedy for reporters of politics at a time of sharp political polarisation. The bitterness appears to have rubbed off on beat reporters, a number of whom are self-confessed ‘beat warriors’. Loyalty to one’s beat overpowers the journalist’s obligation to purvey accurate information to people at large.
The schism often plays out in TV studios. Some senior journalists are not averse to standing in for their ‘respective’ parties when partymen want to duck the press (as happened during the Robert Vadra episode). This has meant that space for journalists occupying the middle ground has alarmingly shrunk. Any objectivity that involves criticism of Modi or Gandhi is met with charges of being fellow-travellers and ideologues of one or the other party.
This pseudo bipolarity, a fallout of what BJP leader Arun Jaitley terms a ‘presidential style’ election campaign, is dangerous for democracy. It is a way of batting for both the national parties that resent the rise of regional parties that eat into their vote share. This bipolarity, which has willy-nilly seeped into our media discourse as well, leads to major distortions. While Modi’s meeting with TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu hit ‘national’ headlines, the 11-party meet in Delhi against communalism on 30 October, seen by many as a step towards a non-Congress, non-BJP alternative, was virtually blacked out by TV networks.
It also means that wherever the Modi-versus-Gandhi drama cannot be played out, you simply forget about it. Readers could be pardoned if they did not know that Assembly polls are also scheduled in Mizoram next month.
What is staple fodder for anchor-orchestrated drama in news studios is a far cry from the complex reality that shapes electoral outcomes in this country. One of the most powerful players in next year’s election drama is the urban middle-class, which appears to be rooting for Modi. But, as Desai says, media overkill so early in the run-up to the General Election of 2014 could lead to “diminishing returns and viewer fatigue” as we inch closer to the actual polling dates.
The larger issue, however, is an ethical one. Is the media accurately chronicling for its readers and viewers the unfolding drama of democracy so that everyone can make an informed choice?
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Naaa...you're not on issue or based on to the points. The question of modi intentionally bringing in corrupt people even before the elections is not addressed by you. You're just trying to pepper it up, sweep it under the rug.
Man how many times have I said that 'Peace Prize was always controversial'. There has been very little of that in Chemistry, Physics or Economics. Lit is a different (subjective) thing altogether.
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Shot in the arm for BJP in the South, Yeddy offers ‘unconditional’ merger!
First he offered to back Modi but refused to merge his party with the BJP. However, after extended negotiations, former BJP chief and chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa may be set to return to the BJP and has reportedly offered to ‘unconditionally’ merge his party with the BJP ahead of the 2014 polls. According to a Times of India report, the offer from Yeddyurappa has been conveyed to the BJP’s top leadership and his top aide has said hinted that his Karanataka Janata Paksha (KJP) was amenable to the merger. “A merger will be in the interest of both parties as it will ensure a smooth synergy and boost the chances of BJP repeating its performance in the last Lok Sabha elections when it won 19 of the 28 Lok Sabha seats,” Yeddyurappa‘s aide Lehar Singh was quoted as saying in the report.
Yeddyurappa, who parted ways with the BJP over the party’s refusal to make him the Chief Minister after being exonerated in a case of corruption, but this time won’t be seeking any posts for himself or his family and is motivated by his “high regard for Modiji“. A section of Karnataka BJP unit led by former chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda has been lobbying for taking back Yeddyurappa.
The former Chief Minister has been making overtures to the BJP suggesting an alliance for some time now and had even reportedly written to LK Advani seeking to be made a part of the NDA only to be met with a frosty silence. Other senior leaders in the party are not too keen on seeing the return of the former Chief Minister and leaders like Ananth Kumar, Sushma Swaraj and Nitin Gadkari may be openly opposed to his return. However, for the BJP which recently lost its hold in the state of Karnataka after Yeddyurappa parted ways, the merger coming ahead of the 2014 polls may finally help get the party in fighting shape. The departure of Yeddyurappa and the infighting among its state leadership were blamed for the party’s demolition in the recent state elections where it won just 40 seats. While the KJP won only six seats, the BJP has acknowledged that Yeddyurappa’s presence in the opposition had dented its performance. Still enjoying the backing of the Lingayat community, Yeddyurappa remains a potent force in the state where the BJP won 19 of the 28 Lok Sabha seats in the 2009 elections. The Congress given its performance in the Assembly elections seems set to hold on to the state in the 2014 polls but Yeddyurappa and the KJP could be the deciding factor for the BJP in getting more seats or at least holding on to the seats it has. Given that the BJP presently has no real base in south India ahead of the 2014 polls, Yeddyurappa’s offer is a tempting one. But both Modi and the BJP will be well aware of the possible price it will come with.
Yeddyurappa offers 'unconditional' merger but will BJP bite? | Firstpost
A tea-seller PM is better than having a PM who sells the nation: Modi
Raipur: Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Prime Minister candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi targeted the Congress on day two of his election rallies in the poll-bound Chhattisgarh.
Modi attacked the UPA who had questioned his humble beginnings and had commented that a tea-seller cannot be a Prime Minister. "It is for the people to decide whether a tea seller should be a PM. A tea-seller PM is better that a PM who sells the country," he said.
Modi lambasted the Congress for poor handling of the affairs in the country and said, "For corruption free India we need a Congress free India."
He also took a dig at the Congress for showing resentment when Lata Mangeshkar praised Modi. "Don't people have a right to air their view? But Congress was upset by Lata Mangeshkar. An upset Congress started saying that the award given to her should be taken back. Is this a democratic language?," he questioned.
Taking a potshot at Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi yet again, Modi said, "These days the Shezada says he wants to change the system. I want to ask who governed the country for 60 years? It was Congress and it is the Congress that has made the system," he said.
Modi's visit comes after state party unit workers demanded that the BJP leader extended his campaign to the states which are up for elections.
The first phase of Chhattisgarh Assembly polls in 18 constituencies ended amidst a low voter turnout. There was no voter turnout in 42 polling booths in Sukma where polling booths are located inside security camps.
First he offered to back Modi but refused to merge his party with the BJP. However, after extended negotiations, former BJP chief and chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa may be set to return to the BJP and has reportedly offered to ‘unconditionally’ merge his party with the BJP ahead of the 2014 polls. According to a Times of India report, the offer from Yeddyurappa has been conveyed to the BJP’s top leadership and his top aide has said hinted that his Karanataka Janata Paksha (KJP) was amenable to the merger. “A merger will be in the interest of both parties as it will ensure a smooth synergy and boost the chances of BJP repeating its performance in the last Lok Sabha elections when it won 19 of the 28 Lok Sabha seats,” Yeddyurappa‘s aide Lehar Singh was quoted as saying in the report.
Yeddyurappa, who parted ways with the BJP over the party’s refusal to make him the Chief Minister after being exonerated in a case of corruption, but this time won’t be seeking any posts for himself or his family and is motivated by his “high regard for Modiji“. A section of Karnataka BJP unit led by former chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda has been lobbying for taking back Yeddyurappa.
The former Chief Minister has been making overtures to the BJP suggesting an alliance for some time now and had even reportedly written to LK Advani seeking to be made a part of the NDA only to be met with a frosty silence. Other senior leaders in the party are not too keen on seeing the return of the former Chief Minister and leaders like Ananth Kumar, Sushma Swaraj and Nitin Gadkari may be openly opposed to his return. However, for the BJP which recently lost its hold in the state of Karnataka after Yeddyurappa parted ways, the merger coming ahead of the 2014 polls may finally help get the party in fighting shape. The departure of Yeddyurappa and the infighting among its state leadership were blamed for the party’s demolition in the recent state elections where it won just 40 seats. While the KJP won only six seats, the BJP has acknowledged that Yeddyurappa’s presence in the opposition had dented its performance. Still enjoying the backing of the Lingayat community, Yeddyurappa remains a potent force in the state where the BJP won 19 of the 28 Lok Sabha seats in the 2009 elections. The Congress given its performance in the Assembly elections seems set to hold on to the state in the 2014 polls but Yeddyurappa and the KJP could be the deciding factor for the BJP in getting more seats or at least holding on to the seats it has. Given that the BJP presently has no real base in south India ahead of the 2014 polls, Yeddyurappa’s offer is a tempting one. But both Modi and the BJP will be well aware of the possible price it will come with.
Yeddyurappa offers 'unconditional' merger but will BJP bite? | Firstpost
A tea-seller PM is better than having a PM who sells the nation: Modi
Raipur: Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Prime Minister candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi targeted the Congress on day two of his election rallies in the poll-bound Chhattisgarh.
Modi attacked the UPA who had questioned his humble beginnings and had commented that a tea-seller cannot be a Prime Minister. "It is for the people to decide whether a tea seller should be a PM. A tea-seller PM is better that a PM who sells the country," he said.
Modi lambasted the Congress for poor handling of the affairs in the country and said, "For corruption free India we need a Congress free India."
He also took a dig at the Congress for showing resentment when Lata Mangeshkar praised Modi. "Don't people have a right to air their view? But Congress was upset by Lata Mangeshkar. An upset Congress started saying that the award given to her should be taken back. Is this a democratic language?," he questioned.
Taking a potshot at Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi yet again, Modi said, "These days the Shezada says he wants to change the system. I want to ask who governed the country for 60 years? It was Congress and it is the Congress that has made the system," he said.
Modi's visit comes after state party unit workers demanded that the BJP leader extended his campaign to the states which are up for elections.
The first phase of Chhattisgarh Assembly polls in 18 constituencies ended amidst a low voter turnout. There was no voter turnout in 42 polling booths in Sukma where polling booths are located inside security camps.
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Its American christians actually. American muslims have played tootsie as usual.
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That's a great news. Not 'cause Yeddy is coming back to BJP... but BJP will get it's vote share back. Yeddy doesn't have any credibility left... but he still managed to split BJP's vote share.
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Aaj wankhede stadium me rahul ko screen per dekh ke logo ne modi modi ki chanting saru kardi
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Serves him right. While Modi is grinding away in Chattisgarh.. this guy is enjoying the cricket match. Just goes to show where does his priority lie!
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Anything is possible when you have money for ad campaign, Put some supporters and make it look Namo is popular and wanted by people.
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The unfortunate truth about the broadcast media!!
A very biased coverage is given to political parties due to higher authorities affiliations. And it's not just limited to Modi,i would include Salman khan and Sanjay Dutt to the list.While their cases were fought in the court, media created a sympathy wave for them out side.
But what surprises me in Modi's case is that for 10years these very same journos had made a career out of Modi bashing and have now back tracked.
Modi is a smart man,he used the trending Facebook and twitter mania to his advantage,he slwoly picked up fans on Facebook and then made his switch to TV.
Cant believe any of what is shown and written these days.Sometimes news is just created out of journalist's figment of imagination.
A very biased coverage is given to political parties due to higher authorities affiliations. And it's not just limited to Modi,i would include Salman khan and Sanjay Dutt to the list.While their cases were fought in the court, media created a sympathy wave for them out side.
But what surprises me in Modi's case is that for 10years these very same journos had made a career out of Modi bashing and have now back tracked.
Modi is a smart man,he used the trending Facebook and twitter mania to his advantage,he slwoly picked up fans on Facebook and then made his switch to TV.
Cant believe any of what is shown and written these days.Sometimes news is just created out of journalist's figment of imagination.
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Yes this is the very same issue that I have addressed on a point to point basis for all the concerns you have raised.But your intrinsic double standard view on Modi and supreme love for congress even while fully accepting the fact that they have totally messed it up and also that their potential PM Rahul Gandhi is an a$hole has made you not see it or rather completely confused you as you claim.
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