India Retold: AFFIDAVIT RUINS MEDIA PARTY

• India Retold: AFFIDAVIT RUINS MEDIA PARTY

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  • It was just the kind of news that excites media tycoon Prannoy Roy. The timing too was near perfect, state elections looming. Everything in place to resume a no-holds barred personal attack on Narendra Modi on the Nine O'clock News on NDTV on September 08, 2009, and project Ishrat Jahan as the innocent teenager killed in cold blood by him. Suddenly, it all went wrong. So wrong, in fact, that Roy could not prevent himself from lamenting the fact that the Gujarat government had "dug up" a Home Ministry affidavit that claimed that Ishrat Jahan was indeed a terrorist.
  • It was just the kind of news that excites media tycoon Prannoy Roy. The timing too was near perfect, state elections looming. Everything in place to resume a no-holds barred personal attack on Narendra Modi on the Nine O'clock News on NDTV on September 08, 2009, and project Ishrat Jahan as the innocent teenager killed in cold blood by him. Suddenly, it all went wrong. So wrong, in fact, that Roy could not prevent himself from lamenting the fact that the Gujarat government had "dug up" a Home Ministry affidavit that claimed that Ishrat Jahan was indeed a terrorist.
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    What has gone wrong with the media? Is terrorism nothing more than a tool to score cheap political points that do not befit even chai wallas? Must every action of the police in Gujarat be seen as a personal indictment of Chief Minister Narendra Modi? How can the media talk of justice when it wants the nation to treat every terrorist, including Ajmal Kasab, as innocent till proved guilty finally by the Supreme Court, but has already pronounced Modi a mass murderer?
  • Every Indian will agree that if Ishrat Jahan was killed in a fake encounter, the cops responsible for the killing should be severely punished. But, for the media to almost deliberately try and convert every killing of a Muslim into a divisive and communal vote-catching opportunity on behalf of the Congress, is a development that is going to cost the country heavily.