Shah on top

IN Media Watch Briefs | 06/05/2014

On May 5 it was the turn of two of our seniormost journalists to interview Amit Shah. While NDTV's Prannoy Roy practically beseeched Shah to act on his "soft side" and clean up the Ganga (Shah wasn't willing to commit even on that!), Shekhar Gupta of the Indian Express asked him why his party didn't take action against people like Giriraj Singh ("if you don't vote for Modi, go to Pakistan"). Giriraj is a nobody, look at what the leaders say, replied Shah, to which Gupta conceded that Narendrabhai hadn't made a single communal statement in the entire campaign. Is that going to be the new Modi myth now, asks an uncharitable viewer.

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