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| People disappointed with BJP, |
| People disappointed with BJP, we are not rising to the occasion, blogs Advani
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| INDIA
, 31-May-2012
5:29:28 AM |
| After the recently-held national executive meet of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was marred in controversy and exposed the divide within the party, senior party leader LK Advani has said, in his latest blog, that his party leaders are not "rising to the occasion". Mr Advani has also targeted party president Nitin Gadkari over the recent crises, saying they undermine the party's campaign against corruption.
Stressing the need for introspection within the party, Mr Advani writes, "If people are today angry with the UPA Government, they are also disappointed with us."
Politicians are generally critical of media persons. It is, however, rare that media men themselves ridicule their own fraternity for indulging in political criticism not because it is justified but because even while realizing that the criticism is uninformed and superficial, the write ups do add up to "lazy copy".
Swapan Dasgupta is an eminent journalist who commands great respect in the capital. His page one piece every Sunday in the Pioneer is read with great interest. His latest column (May 27, 2012) is a severe comment on the media which he holds "shapes the tone and tenor of the chattering class discourse".
Under caption "Media creates its own realities", Dasgupta wrote last Sunday:
"Given the fact that the media thrives on stereotypes, caricatures.... it was not very surprising that the bite brigade that descended on Mumbai last week for the BJP National Executive was looking for reaffirmations of set conclusions."
Swapan added a perceptive summing up :
"That everyone in the BJP is not on the same page is a truism. No political party in India, not even the CPI(M), possesses an army where every member of the officer corps think alike. This is democratic normalcy and it is only in India that the media projects the ideal of politics crafted on the North Korean model."(A Marxist uniformity !)
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