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After Anjana Om Kashyap, now Shweta Singh calls out Rajdeep Sardesai’s bias among others

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After Anjana Om Kashyap, now Shweta Singh calls out Rajdeep Sardesai’s bias among others

It seems like a section of the media is finally finding its voice when it comes to calling out the blatant bias within the fraternity. Earlier, Anjana Om Kashyap had called out Rajdeep Sardesai and just how pliant he is. Now, Sweta Singh has called out the blatant bias in the Left media and even Rajdeep Sardesai among others.


Sweta, the Aaj Tak Editor said that when politicians display their faith, their pictures have been released in to the world by the Media itself. But it is only now that people seem to have an issue.

Sweta was alluding to the coverage accorded to Narendra Modi’s Kedarnath visit that seemed to ruffle the ‘Liberal’ feathers.

Several left journalists had slammed the media itself for giving the Prime Minister the coverage when he was visiting Kedarnath to offer prayers.

Among others, the journalist who seemed most distressed was Rajdeep Sardesai, who is incidentally, from the same media organisation as Sweta Singh.


Rajdeep Sardesai said that on polling day, “news” channels happily showed images of PM Modi’s Kedarnath yatra. He urged that people should not forget that PM is actually a candidate in Varanasi. He then said that ‘moral’ code of conduct is above the ‘model code of conduct’. He also said that the EC was missing in action.

After Anjana Om Kashyap, Sweta Singh is the second journalist from the India Today family to counter and slam Rajdeep Sardesai’s hypocrisy. Anjana Om Kashyap had sarcastically said that she knows of one journalist who conducts coaching for asking on air questions. He is the same journalist who himself could not ask questions beyond ‘saas bahu’ and he now goes around distributing certificates to other journalists. She also said that he was frustrated for having to wait outside the door and not being let in.

Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee sends a defamation notice to PM Modi over his Diamond Harbour speech

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Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee sends a defamation notice to PM Modi over his Diamond Harbour speech

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’ nephew Abhishek Banerjee has sent a defamation notice to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, alleging that the PM made “wildly fabricated allegations” against him at a rally in West Bengal’s Diamond Harbour on Wednesday.


In the two-page notice, the TMC MP has demanded an unconditional apology within 36 hours from Modi, failing which he would “initiate appropriate proceedings”.

Abhishek Banerjee is seeking re-election from the Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha constituency where he is pitted against BJP’s Nilanjan Roy, in whose support PM Modi had been campaigning that day.

Interestingly, Abhishek Banerjee had recently caught public attention when his wife was caught carrying two kg gold at Kolkata airport. Due to his position and the fact that he is the Chief Minister’s nephew, West Bengal police under Mamata’s administration had tried its best to hush the matter and shield his wife.

Meanwhile, Modi in his rally on Wednesday had made a scathing attack claiming that West Bengal was going through a “torturous period under the bua-bhatija rule”.

PM Modi had stated that after the election results are announced, Abhishek Banerjee’s office will be under lock and key. He had added that he has heard that Abhishek’s office has been built by encroaching a road. He had also asserted that the TMC has been amassing wealth through ‘Tolabazi’ (extortion).

PM Modi’s rally at Diamond Harbour had come a day after BJP chief Amit Shah took out a roadshow through North Kolkata, which eventually ended in clashes with Trinamool Congress workers and the vandalisation of an iconic statue of 19th Century social reformer Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar.

Modi in his rally had said “Democracy has turned into Goondacracy in West Bengal. Trinamool Congress goons have made life hell for the people here. But the days of Goondacracy are over,” he had asserted that the people of Bengal would give the Trinamool a befitting reply by voting for BJP.

However, the notice sent to Modi by Abhishek’s lawyer said that the speech, which was widely aired on media channels was aimed at harming his reputation.

According to the notice, PM Modi’s speech also seemed to suggest that Abhishek Banerjee was “in the habit of encroaching upon public land” and that he was part of a “syndicate involved in organised extortion”.

“Such allegations are slanderous, malicious and false, only inhabiting the silos of your party’s collective imagination,” the notice said, furthering that the use of words such as goonda or goon, does not befit somebody occupying PM Modi’s constitutional position.

Incidentally, at the end of August last year, Abhishek Banerjee also filed a case against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah in a city court. Shah had alleged in a public meeting on August 11, 2018, in Kolkata that the funds sent by the Centre to Bengal were partly appropriated by Abhishek Banerjee.

However, using harsh terminology or anecdotes during election campaigning is nothing unusual. Notably, Mamata Banerjee herself has on several occasions spewed venom against Prime Minister Modi. From dragging Modi’s estranged wife into political mudslinging to calling him a liar to mocking him for not having a family of his own to her ‘slap of democracy’ statement, she has not left a single opportunity to castigate Modi.

‘Conspiracy to kill me’, says Tej Pratap Yadav after his bodyguards beat up journalist in Patna

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‘Conspiracy to kill me’, says Tej Pratap Yadav after his bodyguards beat up journalist in Patna

Tej Pratap Yadav, the eldest son of RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, always remains in the news for various reasons. He got involved with another controversy today when a photojournalist was beaten up by his bodyguards following an altercation in Patna today.


According to reports, when Tej Pratap Yadav was leaving a polling station in Patna after casting his vote on Sunday morning, the feet of one cameraman came under the wheels of his car when he was trying to photograph Tej. This led to an argument between the two sides, and in anger, the journalist hit the windscreen of the Mercedes car with his camera, which resulted in the windscreen getting cracked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR70nuDu9BE

Seeing the luxury car of the leader being vandalised, the bodyguards of Tej Pratap thrashed the photojournalist, and also misbehaved with other media personnel present there. Shockingly, Tej Pratap Yadav, who has de declared himself as ‘dusra lalu’, remained mute spectator to this and didn’t intervene when his bodyguards were beating the journalist.


On the other hand, Tej Pratap Yadav said that his bouncers have not done anything wrong. He said that his car was attacked in a conspiracy to kill him. Tej Pratap tweeted that apart from damage to his car, his driver and security guards were also seriously injured.


He has also filed an FIR against the journalist after the incident. He has alleged that when he came out after voting, media personnel surrounded his car and staged a life-threatening attack on him. He also posted a photo of his driver, saying that he was injured in his eyes.

Actor-cum-cocktail politician Swara Bhasker gains 20 sarees and loses 4 brand endorsement deals this election season

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Actor-cum-cocktail politician Swara Bhasker gains 20 sarees and loses 4 brand endorsement deals this election season

As the voting for the 2019 general elections comes to an end today, a Times of India interview of armchair activist doubling up as an actor Swara Bhasker revealed that she bought 20 new sarees for campaigning in multiple political rallies. Bhasker, who lent her support to six politicians across political parties making it a cocktail of ideologies, added that she has also lost 4 brand endorsement deals after she campaigned for CPI’s Kanhaiya Kumar.

Kanhaiya Kumar, the member of the infamous ‘Tukde Tukde Gang’ is currently on bail for allegedly chanting anti-national slogans at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi in 2016. The Delhi Police Special Cell had submitted 1200-page charge-sheet in January this year against Kanhaiya Kumar and other left-wing students of the JNU.

Swara admits that she was being called for campaigning because of her being an actor. Hence to maintain a certain image, she curated her look and purchased 20 new sarees and jewellery to ‘talk about issues that matter’. She says, “I knew that people were calling me because I am a heroine. As soon as I learnt that I would be campaigning, I went and bought 20 saris and got my wardrobe sorted. Maine blouse silva liye, jewellery leli and curated my look. I used to blow dry my hair in the morning, put on my hair extensions and makeup, and wear my chunky earrings. I knew that the media would come for pictures and interviews, which in turn could be used as a platform to talk about issues that matter.”

In what can be considered a confession of how the film industry is also politicised, she said, “The industry is already politicised. You can see in terms of the appointments that are made, whether it is the FTII, the nature and composition of our censor board, or the way national awards are given. Every government puts its set of people in place.”

Swara’s mother Ira Bhaskar, a professor of cinema studies at JNU, was a Censor Board member during the UPA government and had quit in January 2015 after CBFC chairperson Leena Samson resigned in January 2015. She was also accused of being a Congress stooge when she quit.

Swara then mentions how she is considered a ‘thinking actor’ and hence she could lend her ‘credibility’ to the candidates and make their case stronger. She then mentions how her masturbation scene from the film Veere Di Wedding was dragged into political campaign. She said it was crass sexism and she was ‘little stung’ by it. Ironically, Swara, amongst other politicians, also extended her support to Congress leader Divijaya Singh, Lok Sabha candidate for Bhopal Lok Sabha seat who had once referred to his own colleague as ‘sau taka tunch maal‘ (a sexist slur which means ‘desirable object’).

Hypocrisy just reached a pathbreaking level.

Meanwhile, Swara has not completely written off joining politics as a backup career option a few years down the line.

Sensing a possible Modi victory, Rajdeep Sardesai proceeds to discredit his own channel’s Exit Poll even before it is aired

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Sensing a possible Modi victory, Rajdeep Sardesai proceeds to discredit his own channel’s Exit Poll even before it is aired

Rajdeep Sardesai is a complex man with many shades. The hate he harbours manifests itself when one least expects it. After demonising Narendra Modi for over 15 years, Sardesai seems to be getting tired of holding on to the hope that he might influence even one voter to listen to his drivel. But Rajdeep is a persistent man. He just never gives up. Sensing that PM Modi might just come back to power for a second term, he has proceeded to discredit the India Today Exit Poll which is yet to be aired.

Interestingly, first, he appeared to play up India Today’s Exit Poll which is to be aired after the polling is done for the last phase of 2019 Lok Sabha elections. He called the Exit Poll ‘most credible’ and took a dig at other media houses for calling their own Exit Polls ‘the biggest polls’.


Then, he did something truly bizarre. While tweeting a reminder of the Exit Polls, he proceeded to add a couple of caveats that ended up discrediting his own channel’s Exit Poll.


Rajdeep Sardesai proceeded to say that a) Exit Polls can go wrong but generally captures the trend b) the winner won’t be decided today but on 23rd!

What Rajdeep perhaps tried to do here, sensing the possibility of the Exit Poll favouring PM Modi, BJP and even the NDA is that he he used his tweet as a dog whistle to impart some sort of hope to the Congress party and the larger ‘mahagathbandhan’.

Even before the Exit Polls went live, Rajdeep said that Exit Polls are not necessarily accurate thereby telling his fellow Congress supporters to hold on and not get disheartened if the Exit Polls show a Modi victory.

Then he goes a step further and says that the results would be announced on 23rd.

Any television channel would ideally play up their Exit Polls and take pride in their accuracy. Rajdeep Sardesai trying his best to convince people that Exit Polls are innacurate and basically trash can only be attributed to his own little dream that the Modi government should not, and would not, come back to power. Perhaps all Rajdeep can do right now is hold on to that hope for as long as he possibly can.

Despite Congress ecosystem’s attempt to use Murli Manohar Joshi to target Modi, the veteran says Modi has blessings of the people

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Despite Congress ecosystem’s attempt to use Murli Manohar Joshi to target Modi, the veteran says Modi has blessings of the people

BJP patriarch Murli Manohar Joshi cast his vote today in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency, Varanasi, which went into polls in the last and seventh phase of the Lok Sabha elections.

The veteran leader while taking questions after coming out of the polling booth said that Modi has the voter’s blessings. Though he asserted that he was there to cast his vote and does not wish to talk about politics, when the journalists insisted, he said that the public will decide if there was development in the last five years or not and said that the Prime Minister has the support of his voters.


The BJP leader, at no point of time, appeared displeased with Modi or his government as the Congress ecosystem had earlier claimed, attempting to use the veteran leader to target PM Modi.

On the contrary, when a journalist questioned him about a new generation of BJP leaders ‘taking over’, Joshi jovially pointed it out that a new generation of journalists is taking over too.

In April 2019, just as the Lok Sabha election had commenced, a fake letter claiming to be written by senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi to BJP patriarch LK Advani criticising the state of the BJP under Prime Minister Narendra Modi had been circulated vigorously across the social media.

In that ‘fake’ letter, Murli Manohar Joshi’s name has been used to paint an unfavourable image against the BJP, especially against the Prime Minister. It says that Joshi had received offers from SP-BSP coalition to contest the elections. Since veteran leaders of BJP like Joshi and Advani were excluded from the party’s candidate list for the Lok Sabha elections, opposition parties and a section of media have been trying to claim a rift in the party by asserting that Modi-Shah duo has been sidelining other leaders of the party.

This ‘fake’ letter was extensively used by the Congress party trolls in an attempt to create a false narrative ahead of the second phase of 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Moreover, in 2017, the Congress had also dragged BJP’s veteran leaders like LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Sanjay Joshi, Keshubhai Patel and Anandiben Patel, in its attempt to malign Modi and Shah’s image, by alleging they were “victims” of Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah’s politics of dominance in BJP.

Congress’ spokesperson, Randeep Surjewala raked up the names of former BJP top guns alleging that Modi-Shah duo had sidelined the veteran leaders to rise to power.

Interestingly, Congress President Rahul Gandhi, who himself climbed the hierarchical ladder leaving behind many veteran Congress leaders, merely because of his family name, had castigated Modi for sidelining senior leader LK Advani, to make way for Amit Shah.

Gandhi had used Advani’s name to mount attacks on PM Modi and while attacking him he crossed the line of decency by using crass language for a senior leader like LK Advani. He had stated that LK Advani was hit with shoes and was cast away by PM Modi.

Bombs hurled and journalists assaulted in Bengal, but TMC writes to EC complaining against PM Modi’s Kedarnath visit

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Bombs hurled and journalists assaulted in Bengal, but TMC writes to EC complaining against PM Modi’s Kedarnath visit

As the long process of general elections that started on April 11 winds up today, powerplay and political slandering seem far from being over. Even as West Bengal again manages to grab national headlines for political violence, poll malpractice and vandalism, the ruling party TMC is busy finding faults in PM Modi’s spiritual visit to the Kedarnath shrine.

The TMC has written to the Election Commission of India alleging that the PM’s visit to Kedarnath and the media coverage of it is a ‘gross violation of the model code of conduct’.


In the letter, the ruling party of Bengal has alleged that PM Modi’s Kedarnath visit is being widely televised by all channels, national and local, ‘even after the campaigning had ended on 17 May’. It also states that PM Modi addressed the media and declared that the masterplan for the site’s development is ready which is ‘morally incorrect’.

The letter alleges that every minute details of the visit are being televised and even the people are chanting “Modi Modi” in the background. TMC claims that it might influence voters.

The letter urges the ECI to immediately order to stop the telecast of PM’s Kedarnath visit.

TMC, however, seems to forget that Narendra Modi is the Prime Minister and media will definitely follow him wherever he goes. There is no rule that says a Prime Minister cannot visit a temple hundreds of miles away from his constituency to practice his faith. Moreover, PM Modi had not given a single political statement, neither has he discussed elections and sought votes at any time during the visit.

It is also a sad irony that while West Bengal is in turmoils of rampant political violence and chaos, the ruling party deemed it fit to whine over PM Modi’s spiritual visit to a religious place far away from his constituency.

As on today, there are reports of polling malpractice, booth capturing, and even violent attacks on journalists in the state of West Bengal.


In Islampur, Raiganj, there are reports of journalists being attacked, manhandled and even bombs being hurled at them. The cars of some journalists have been smashed too. Locals have stated that the attack was a retaliation to the journalists reporting the incidents of voters being stopped from voting in a booth in Islampur.

other incidents of violence and vandalism have also been reported from Bhatpara, Barasat and other areas as well. Such was the lawlessness in the state that the ECI had to invoke section 324 for the first time in India’s electoral history for West Bengal when they ordered all campaigning to stop a day before the scheduled date.

Rajeev Kumar, the former Kolkata police chief for whom Mamata Banerjee had resorted to a dharna when CBI went to interrogate him, was sacked by the ECI, as well as the principal secretary Atri Bhattacharya. A number of BJP workers have been brutally murdered in the state and Mamata’S government had tried its best not to let BJP leaders campaign in her state, by cancelling permissions for rallies and not letting choppers land.

Congress’ Captain Amarinder violates Model Code of Conduct, tweets to urge people to vote for Congress

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Congress’ Captain Amarinder violates Model Code of Conduct, tweets to urge people to vote for Congress

In a blatant violation of the Model Code of Conduct, Punjab Chief Minister and Congress leader Captain Amarinder tweeted to urge people to vote for Congress.

Captain Amarinder’s tweet, now deleted

In his tweet, Captain Amarinder urged the people of Punjab to choose between the BJP and Congress and to vote for ‘peace, progress and stability that only INC can deliver’. However, he soon deleted his tweet.

The Punjab state unit has been in the news for the wrong reasons during the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections. Captain Amarinder Singh and Navjot Kaur Sidhu, Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu’s wife, have been at loggerheads over Amritsar Lok Sabha seat candidature. Navjot Sidhu Kaur had alleged that Captain Amarinder Singh was responsible for her not getting the ticket to fight the Lok Sabha elections from the Amritsar seat.

However, Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh has dismissed the allegations levelled against him by Navjot Sidhu Kaur claiming that she was offered a chance to fight from Amritsar or Bhatinda but she refused to fight on both the seats. Singh added, “Ticket allocation is done by the Congress leadership in Delhi and they had denied her application to fight from the Chandigarh seat. Chandigarh doesn’t come under Punjab and thus I had no role in her rejection.” Singh also said that if given a choice, he would have recommended Pawan Bansal, the party’s chosen candidate for Chandigarh seat.

All 13 Lok Sabha constituencies in Punjab will cast their vote today in the seventh phase of polling. The counting will take place on 23rd May.

West Bengal marred by violence: BJP leader shot at, office vandalised and cars set ablaze in Bhatpara

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West Bengal marred by violence: BJP leader shot at, office vandalised and cars set ablaze in Bhatpara

The Lok Sabha elections entered its last phase today. West Bengal’s scenario has been no different from the previous phases. Reports of severe violence before and during the last seventh phase of polls have started pouring in.

A night before the polls, clashes reportedly broke out between BJP and Trinamool Congress workers in Bhatpara district in North 24 Parganas, West Bengal after BJP leader Arjun Singh was allegedly shot at by Trinamool goons. Bombs were hurled and two vehicles were set on fire in Bhatpara which goes in to vote today. Assembly bypolls are also being conducted in Bhatpara constituency today.

Both parties blamed each other for the attack. Trinamool Congress claimed that people from outside were brought into the area by the BJP who were allegedly behind the violence.

The two main candidates contesting in the constituency are Madan Mitra of the Trinamool Congress and Pawan Singh of the BJP.

Arjun Singh, the BJP leader who was shot at today, is the father of Pawan Singh. Arjun Singh had resigned from the Bhatpara assembly seat and had decided to contest as a BJP candidate from the Barrackpore Lok Sabha constituency.

Notably, Madan Mitra is an accused in the Saradha chit fund scam and had been released from Alipore jail three years back after staying in there for two years.

Moreover, Barasat constituency in West Bengal has also been marred by violence. BJP office in Kadampur district, Phulia, Barasat has been vandalised. Chairs and the temple in the office have been broken and the curtains were set ablaze. BJP has alleged Trinamool workers were behind the attack.


Bengal has been marred by political violence since the beginning of the Lok Sabha elections. BJP workers have been targeted by the Trinamool goons in almost all the phases of the ongoing polls. BJP worker Raman Singh was found dead in Jhargram, West Bengal. Two BJP workers Ananta Guchait and Ranjit Maity were reportedly shot at in Bhagabanpur in East Medinipur.

Sporadic incidents of similar violence were reported in the previous five phases in different parts of West Bengal.

A BJP worker named Prashant Sharma was brutally beaten up by some unidentified people in Frasor Road during phase 5 of the ongoing elections. Similarly, BJP candidate from Barrackpore, Arjun Singh, was reportedly attacked by goons associated with the Trinamool Congress. BJP District President in Hooghly, Pranab Mondal Saha, had alleged that he was thrashed by Trinamool goons while he was on his way to meet a fellow member of the party Khokon Biswas.

Moreover, there were reports of massive violence from Asansol in the fourth phase of elections. Crude bombs had been found at a polling booth in Krishnanagar, West Bengal and also bombs have been recovered from a polling booth in Santipur, Nadia district. 

Threats, intimidations, bomb attacks, proxy voting have also been recorded in some of the Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal during the third phase of Lok Sabha elections.

Similarly, TMC workers had clashed with BJP workers inside a polling booth in Chopra, Darjeeling.

Incidentally, the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls was no different for West Bengal, Where elections are often greeted with violent skirmishes and clashes between competing parties. Violence and rampant polling malpractice were reported from Cooch Behar and Alipurduar, that had gone to polls in the first phase of the elections.

Moreover, following the widespread violence observed during the ongoing elections in West Bengal, the Election Commission had taken the unprecedented step of cutting short election campaigning for the seventh phase of the Lok Sabha election in Bengal.

Here is what may have triggered Rajdeep Sardesai’s own colleague slamming him for being a pliant journalist

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Here is what may have triggered Rajdeep Sardesai’s own colleague slamming him for being a pliant journalist

Prime Minister Modi has given several interviews during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, one of them being to channel Aaj Tak, the Hindi counterpart of India Today. The interview was conducted by three journalists, Anjana Om Kashyap, Rahul Kanwal and Shweta Singh. Anjana Om Kashyap, one of the Editors of Aaj Tak who conducted that interview interestingly took to Twitter today to castigate what appears to be her colleague, Rajdeep Sardesai.


Anjana sarcastically said that she knows of one journalist who conducts coaching for asking on air questions. He is the same journalist who himself could not ask questions beyond ‘saas bahu’ and he now goes around distributing certificates to other journalists. She also said that he was frustrated for having to wait outside the door and not being let in.

Anjana Om Kashyap did not name anyone in particular. It is likely that in the future, Anjana might be forced to distance Rajdeep from her scathing tweet, however, there are enough clued in the tweet itself to conclude that she was indeed talking about her colleague, Rajdeep Sardesai. In her tweet, Anjana mentioned an interview where the said journalist could not ask questions beyond saas-bahu. Rajdeep Sardesai had conducted an infamous interview of the then Congress President Sonia Gandhi where he had asked her several questions about whether she cooked for her mother-in-law (Indira Gandhi) or not, and if she did, what was it that she cooked.

One wondered what might have triggered this onslaught on her colleague and whether the clue was hidden in her tweet itself. Anjana mentioned in her tweet that this journalist likes to distribute certificates and is desperate to stand outside the door. It would stand to reason that perhaps the trigger for Anjana’s tweet was Rajdeep pontificating on national television about how journalists let themselves and their profession down by not insisting that the Prime Minister answer questions during BJP’s last press conference before result day, where Amit Shah answered questions from the media in the presence of PM Modi.


Rajdeep Sardesai was distressed after BJP’s press conference on 18th May and had asked his panellists whether the journalists should have insisted that PM Modi take questions and been more aggressive. He had derided all the journalists who asked questions at that press conference. Incidentally, Anjana Om Kashyap was one of the journalists present at the press conference who had got the chance to ask questions.

He had also tweeted about the press conference saying that it was a ‘press appearance’ and not a ‘press conference’ by the Prime Minister.


Interestingly, while trying to chastise other journalists, Rajdeep revealed his own ignorance on the matter. The press conference was a BJP one and not the Prime Minister’s press conference, to begin with. In fact, when a question was directed at the PM, he had passed that to Amit Shah, saying as a disciplined soldier of the party, he won’t speak in front of the president. By this, he had clearly indicated that he was merely present at the press conference, but it was a press conference of the BJP president, and the prime minister was present there as a BJP member.

It must be remembered that the press conference was held at BJP headquarters, not at a government venue. While earlier press conferences by prime ministers were held at government venues, not party head offices. For example, previous prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh had addressed press conferences at Vigyan Bhawan in 2010 and National Media Centre in 2014, he didn’t answer questions in Congress headquarters.

The allegation mounted by Anjana Om Kashyap doesn’t seem very off the mark. Rajdeep has for the longest time been a faithful soldier of the Congress party within the media. He lies regularly, demonises Modi and even has a long illustrious career of spreading propaganda. He has paltry respect for other journalists who don’t wish to behave like ruffians like himself (one recalls his punching fiasco at Madison Square Garden) and conduct interviews with dignity when it comes to PM Modi while he himself crawls in front of the Dynasty. 

With Anjana Om Kashyap’s tweet, the war within the India Today network is widely visible. Several people had wondered earlier whether the rest of the relatively sane journalists from the media group actually respect or even like to work alongside Rajdeep Sardesai who is massively biased and not the brightest cookie in the cookie jar. With Anjana taking on the propagandist, the answer to that question seems rather obvious.

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