Anchors and their obsessions

IN Media Watch Briefs | 19/05/2016

On NDTV India Ravish Kumar was pursuing his theory about the BJP's victory in Assam having its roots in the RSS's pre-independence entry into that region and its presence there since then. On Zee News Sudhir Chaudhary was doing a soliloquy on the decline of the Congress. He first compared it to the extinct dodo and then suggested it was headed the same way. On India TV Rajat Sharma was giving BJP minister Mahesh Sharma a platform to talk about the BJP's splendid performance. Then he told us how the WB and TN outcomes would also benefit Narendra Modi because they keep the Congress at bay.

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