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Post by Guest Thu Apr 03, 2014 9:12 pm



In conclusion? The media is either unwilling or unable to ask Modi penetrative questions. In these two interviews, he swatted away softball questions with a hard bat. Perhaps he only agreed to be interviewed on condition that he not be asked uncomfortable questions. If you compare this interview with Rahul’s on Times Now, the contrast is stark: Rahul was asked at least some hard-hitting questions, cornered on issues like the 1984 Sikh riots, although he was allowed to have his say on his pet themes. In Modi’s case, he simply had his way throughout. Not once was anything he said challenged. It made for poor TV. If he continues to give soft interviews, they will be viewed as plugs for him — another strategy in the marketing of Modi.

You notice a contrast in the advertising campaigns of the Congress and BJP too. The Congress ad currently on the air features people from different walks of life in brief encounters with Rahul and Sonia Gandhi. It ends with Rahul in the foreground with “the people” behind him. The present BJP ad features only Narendra Modi. The cult of Gujarat’s chief minister is being assiduously cultivated, maybe at the cost of the BJP. Increasingly, this election is being projected as a fight between Modi and the political parties which oppose him. The BJP is almost an afterthought.

http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/how-modi-faced-the-nation/99/

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