Date with the minister

IN Media Watch Briefs | 04/04/2017

Minister Piyush Goyal  is getting bored with meeting journalists in his office. The additional director general of the Press Information Bureau sent around an invite last week for "an informal meeting" on April 3 to journalists covering his  ministry at the Cafe Coffee Day on Janpath.  For editors there is less downmarket treatment: the minister meets them at the Delhi Taj.              

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Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.                 

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