Repartee to remember

IN Media Watch Briefs | 08/11/2014

Another nugget figures in Rajdeep Sardesai’s book which had its release in Delhi on Friday. He says he called Narendra Modi in Ahmedabad at night after he was re-elected in 2012 to congratulate him and asked him whether his decision to deliver a victory speech in Hindi was the clearest sign yet that he wanted to make a pitch for prime minister. Modi’s response: ‘Rajdeep, jab aap reporter editor ban sakte ho, toh kya chief minister, pradhan mantri nahi ban sakte kya?’ (If a reporter like you can become an editor, why can’t a chief minister become a prime minister.)

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