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:
https://twitter.com/ShekharGupta/status/834658506863165440
Shekhar Gupta happily forgot that BJP had performed stunningly well against BJD in Odisha earlier this week.
Researchers discovered new qualities in Shiv Sena:
https://twitter.com/waglenikhil/status/834656716683931648
Suddnely, Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray was “reluctantly” fundamentalist:
https://twitter.com/BDUTT/status/834656703383629824
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.
https://twitter.com/YRDeshmukh/status/834714991089573889
And obviously the people “thanked” Barkha Dutt for this!
https://twitter.com/attomeybharti/status/834697166732001280
https://twitter.com/_RKSumit/status/834694311547531265
https://twitter.com/WoCharLog/status/834695943526240256
And the hurt reportedly started showing on some Journalist’s faces:
https://twitter.com/Sootradhar/status/834702777569796097
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:
https://twitter.com/RanaAyyub/status/834698203442315264
https://twitter.com/RanaAyyub/status/834696494330568704