Ostrich-like BJP minister

IN Media Watch Briefs | 25/11/2016

Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on a programme on NDTV launched into a ridiculing of the media, particularly TV, describing how they went from queue to queue in the country to ask people about the inconvenience standing in long lines to claim their own money. Twisting her face and imitating media people, the minister said that no one in the queues said they were being inconvenienced although the biased media wanted to hear otherwise. One wonders which TV channel SItharaman was watching where people were saying they loved standing in the queues.

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