We don't like you

IN Media Watch Briefs | 02/12/2016

The BJP is transparent about its media dislikes. In a programme "Ground Zero- Cash crunch" that Rajdeep Sardesai was doing on India Today on December 1, pay day, he asked Smriti Irani on the steps of Parliament for her reaction. Her reply was "Rajdeep the whole world knows that I do not speak to you much and I am surprised that Rajdeep Sardesai is stalking a woman!" A journalist asking questions is a stalker? Unfazed, Rajdeep replied : "But Ma'am I am just asking you a question". The next person to react to him was Kiron Kher who said "We know your biases Mr Sardesai...why don't you go and find one ATM where they are giving money". Then came Ravi Shankar Prasad "Mr Sardesai you are very critical of Mr Modi we know but try to be positive sometimes..." What a brigade.

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