Seen with Modi?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 26/04/2014

Twitter is agog with the news of Indian Express editor in chief Shekhar Gupta sitting next to Modi on a dais in Bhatinda. It was not similarly agog when he was seen on Yogendra Yadav’s campaign truck. The days are apparently gone when a journalist could be seen with a politician and be assumed to be just doing his job. Gupta watchers on Twitter are re-reading his recent columns to look for dark signs in them.

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