Hanuman Modi

IN Media Watch Briefs | 24/06/2013

A reader asks about the TOI story 'Narendra Modi lands in Uttarakhand, flies out with 15,000 Gujaratis': "Did the paper verify facts such as 80 Innovas? How is it possible to rescue 15,000 Gujaratis from flood affected Uttarkhand in less than two or three days? Or was Modi some new age scientific Hanuman? How did he and his parochial team identify the 15,000 Gujaratis from over a million people stranded by the floods? On the face of it, the report looks wonderful. But it defies common sense."

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