Why Media, Congress are scared by Modi?

Congress has mastered the art of putting poker face even in the most uncomfortable situations. They straight away reject allegation levied on any of their members without going into any thinking process, unless the issue hurts their election prospects and their general image. A spokesperson was involved in a sex scandal which got into public domain; the person went to hiding for some time and then came back as if nothing happened. The congress denies any loss of exchequer due to the sale of 2G licences and blames the CAG for inflating the loss values and creating a false image of the government. But the congress never admits its mistakes. Another instance of this attitude of the government was highlighted, when the son-in-law of the congress party president was allegedly involved in a real estate scam, the entire congress machinery was involved to push the agenda that the person is clean and a officer who initiated investigation has been transferred.

Many of the institutions have become tools of the Congress party starting from the President’s office to the Judiciary. Even the governors of certain state act as the agents of Congress interfering in the executive powers of the State. Many top officers and experienced MLA and other members of the party do favors to the Gandhis to get retirement benefits in the form of becoming Governors, heads of some government institutions and thus continue to enjoy the benefits at the cost of tax payer. According to a newspaper report around 50 High Court judges are appointed by the interference of the Congress Party President in conjunction with one Balakrishnan, on whom there were serious corruption allegations. One thing is clear there are very few who can go against the will of Congress Party Presidents, who act as if the nation is their personal property and the power transfer, should be by inheritance and the Congress party members are happy to go along as long as their wealth keeps increasing.

With the advent of cable television and the citizens’ appetite for more entertainment and information, the number of news channels is increasing every year.  There are news channels for religions, business (markets), marketing goods, news. All the channels run 24x7x365 and will not stop unless there is a communication network breakdown.  Some news channels speak about only regional matters, some national and few international matters. The primetime debates have become the biggest eye catchers and the anchors call themselves media celebrities whose main job is to organize a debate on any particular topic. If the debate is conducted according to a set of rules, it helps in understanding the stand of various parties political and non political on the topic being discussed.

But with the competition in the news market becoming very tough, the revenue generated is reduced also due to increase in the number of channels. The rating agencies give the TRPs for each channel, and the channel with maximum TRPs get the best prices for the advertisements which are the prime source of revenue. If this is the sole source for revenue, managing the affairs will be difficult. Thus the news channels have taken alternative and innovative approach to raise revenue. They started to involve in blackmail and this is yet to be proved (Zee-Jindal case), the media celebrities have become power brokers (Radia tapes scam), conduct sting operations to defame a party (Bangaru Laxman bribe sting operation) and other programs (Aman ki asha) and activities. The election time is a good time for the channels to gain revenue with paid news. The recently concluded Gujarat election has witnessed around 414 cases of paid news and EC is verifying the seriousness of the cases.

The media and the party in power for the maximum period, Congress, seem to have to come to an understanding to help one another to survive. The media does not show Congress in bad light unless there are severe compulsions from international media or other non congress friendly media houses, and as a favor Congress gives many ads to the media. This deal has been in practice for some time and the both parties are happy at the outcome. Also the revenue will not be sufficient so the funding of the media houses from the foreign sources is still to be explored. It is said that almost all the national media houses are funded by Christian churches and Saudi kings and thus we find all the channels to be anti-Hindu and highly secular. Even at a slightest issue of non-Hindu is made a mountain, while the mountain of an issue is made a mole. The media has been covering many of the non-Hindu crimes and shielding the crimes by using pseudo names and using other means. On the whole the campaign of Congress and Media has been successful in the removal of the Karnataka CM, BSY while a equal corruption allegations against Delhi CM are not blown but shielded. For atrocity committed by a minority community is equated by a similar or lesser one committed by a Hindu community and the media justifies the incident. Many of the citizens have become liberal, globalized, and secular by watching the national news channel.

This beautiful partnership has been repeatedly and regularly failing when comes to the state of Gujarat. The post-Godhra violence in which around 750muslims, 254 Hindus are killed is painted as the worst state sponsored atrocity against the Muslim community and the success achieved is highly appreciable. Media repeatedly says thousands have been murdered, pregnant women’s stomach ripped, MLA’s daughter raped, etc. All these utterances are nothing but fantasies of the media people. A statement repeated thousand times and gullible people sitting in their homes wanting to know the issues of the country tend to believe these. Many of people have believed and developed a hatred towards the so called mass murderer Narendra Modi who became the CM of Gujarat for the fourth time in December 2012. The propaganda by the media and Congress has not been successful against this one person, because of the spread of another form of media called Social media.

Unlike the Media of the TVs, Print where the editors have certain unknown sources who transfer their wisdom and the material gets transmitted; in social media the knowledge is widely available for free. Very few are unknown sources and the truth is more easily verified thanks to the tool provided by the Congress, RTI. With media being highly coastly affair, SM is a true independent platform where the truth can be unearthed and spread. Many people have the taken upon the task of spreading the truth and have only gained more respect and followers. The lies of the media and the practical realities are not in sync when there is people to people contact. This again increases the curiosity of the ordinary citizens to search for the truth. Thus internet dot the explosion of the telephone helped the people to get the truth.

With number haters of in the media, Modi has taken to the Social media and his popularity is huge compared to other politicians of this country. He could communicate to his followers about his visions, developmental activities and with each passing day the followers have increased. 11years of defaming and lies have not dented the image of Modi and he has only grown more popular and media and Congress has to be thanked for keeping his name in the public memory. Today as the nation readies for the LS elections the Congress and Media are very uncomfortable to face this person head-on. The hugely unsuccessful Rahul Gandhi becoming the VP and leading the Congress campaign can never match the strategy of the Modi, who is a successfully campaigned in Gujarat. Thus at every opportunity the Congress tried to ridicule Modi as being not fit to be a PM when the opinion polls show otherwise.

The popularity of Modi is very high, and it is not only due to the development works alone but to his capacity to face the criticism and deliver the election promised when the whole industry is watching for even a small mistake to blow out of proportion. With nothing left the media started to talk about the Lokauykta issue, and the Governor herself is neck deep in corruption and if a probe is started she would land in jail. Thus the issue is not blown out of proportion but propped up every now and then to show Modi in bad light. Nothing working, the Congress decided to 100crores to buy support in the Social Media. This will definitely create quite a few job opportunities and may help the congress fulfill its promise of jobs but will not be able to damage the image of the BJP or Modi. How to deal the Person and his hugely loyal following is the issue that will have to be answered in the coming months?

In the mean time Modi has made a meeting with party president, many members of the party are accepting the truth the people want to see him as the PM and are willing to support his candidature. One person or party Nitish Kumar is not able to digest the rise of Mod, who himself has ambitions of becoming PM, and has achieved the power in Bihar with the help of BJP now is dictating terms to the BJP. Leader Sinha has clearly indicated the they can break alliance if they wish otherwise, and when things seems to be going out of control, rightly the party president has issued a order to not discuss the issue in public and make comments. All this indicates the increasing support for Modi and media the partner of congress tried to create the rift within the BJP, but a timely order of the party president avoided confusion in this matter.

This type of professional work of the BJP is what the Congress fears, and a person like Modi who sidelined the media is what scares them? With no solutions on how to tackle the rise of Modi, the battle of wits is won by BJP even before it has begun. The entire Sangh ahs to keep a restraint and must not make provocative speeches which the secular people may not like and thus dent the votes of the BJP. The secular can include all the citizens and not only muslims and other minorities as being usually used by the media. The LS elections determine whether this nation moves forward or backward as is the case in the last 9years. The chorus Modi for PM is only becoming louder every day and only time will tell what BJP parliamentary board decides. This is one thing that media is not able to digest and there are no leakages, no dramas to unfold, no tears, no poison to drink, no evolution of leader, no emotional speeches, no obama moments, but only joy to be led by a leader who can deliver his promises. The fear of Modi can be called Modiphobia and media, congress are suffering from this and needs help. Let’s give them rest after the LS elections till then enjoy the comic stuff.