BMC elections votes were counted today and initial trends, though incomplete, suggested that Shiv Sena could win the elections with BJP finishing at the second place. Though both the parties are branded “saffron” and “communal” by the so-called left-liberal commentators and journalists, somehow they appeared to be supporting Shiv Sena over the BJP today.
This liberal love for the Shiv Sena came to the fore on Twitter as many in the Media ended up showering praises on the Shiv Sena and Uddhav Thackeray.
Now that the BJP has done almost as good as Shiv Sena in the BMC polls, following comments betray how these journalists lose objectivity in their enthusiasm to show BJP down:
Sena lead in #BMCelection confirms a pan-India trend. BJP is unstoppable when faced with Cong, but struggles against strong regional forces
— Shekhar Gupta (@ShekharGupta) February 23, 2017
Shekhar Gupta happily forgot that BJP had performed stunningly well against BJD in Odisha earlier this week.
Researchers discovered new qualities in Shiv Sena:
Shiv Sean’s grassroot organization has pushed back BJP in Mumbai. BJP didn’t have such support n were short of good candidates.
— nikhil wagle (@waglenikhil) February 23, 2017
Suddnely, Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray was “reluctantly” fundamentalist:
I used to call Udhav Thackeray ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’- soft spoken, photography lover; the #BMCPolls2017 herald his coming into own
— barkha dutt (@BDUTT) February 23, 2017
As if almost on cue after controversial journalist Barkha Dutt put out her tweet, Shiv Sena’s lead started diminishing and BJP began gaining ground in Mumbai. At the time of publishing of this report, BJP was just 3 seats behind while claiming support of 4 independent winners.
Two seats change trends in last 10 mins. Now BJP 81 and SS 84.
If just two seats change hands, entire narrative will change altogether.— Yashwant Deshmukh (@YRDeshmukh) February 23, 2017
And obviously the people “thanked” Barkha Dutt for this!
Kya panauti hai…. ? pic.twitter.com/vfOB0ohObg
— Spaminder Bharti (@attomeybharti) February 23, 2017
Sena was well ahead of BJP till Barkha started praising Uddhav…..Hillary Effect. ? https://t.co/PG895N4pwD
— Sumit (@_RKSumit) February 23, 2017
Shiv Sena was leading on 100+ seats in #BMCresults.
Then Barkha tweeted in their favour.
— चार लोग (@WoCharLog) February 23, 2017
And the hurt reportedly started showing on some Journalist’s faces:
Kumar Ketkar, Nikhil Wagle were so happy between 1000 Hrs and 1200 Hrs , now it’s different story.
— JNS ?? (@Sootradhar) February 23, 2017
So the Moral of the story is: Never jump the gun.
And as they say, even a broken clock shows the right time twice a day and today was Rana Ayyub’s day:
Also @Dev_Fadnavis proves delhi based journalists ignorance of maharashtra politics. Break up from shiv sena in local body worked for him.
— Rana Ayyub (@RanaAyyub) February 23, 2017
BJP gets 77 in bombay alone. This is big. @Dev_Fadnavis proves his mettle against the thackerays #BMCresults
— Rana Ayyub (@RanaAyyub) February 23, 2017
