The Indian bureaucracy is always eager to please their political masters, even if the stupidity is obvious to others. So what if Modi called Ahmed Patel (Gujarat Congress boss) his one-time friend and that he considers Priyanka Robert Vadra like his daughter. Priyanka has now come-back with the (silly) retort that she is Rajiv's daughter and Patel has denied that he was ever friendly with Modi.
Given the hair-raising stuff that politicians of all stripes are saying to get the masses excited, mobilized and yes, polarized (sample: Abu Azmi says today that muslim voters in UP who did not vote for the Samajwadi Party must be forcibly DNA tested) this is all very thin milk.
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Link: http://www.ndtv.com/elections/article/election-2014/after-narendra-modi-interview-prasar-bharati-ceo-talks-of-shadow-of-government-517511
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regards
Given the hair-raising stuff that politicians of all stripes are saying to get the masses excited, mobilized and yes, polarized (sample: Abu Azmi says today that muslim voters in UP who did not vote for the Samajwadi Party must be forcibly DNA tested) this is all very thin milk.
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Acknowledging
that certain portions of the Narendra Modi interview on Doordarshan
"were apparently edited", Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar on Friday
said the public broadcaster had failed to get the autonomy it was
seeking and pointed a finger at information and broadcasting minister
Manish Tewari for the failure to break the stranglehold.
In a strongly-worded letter to the Prasar Bharati board, under which Doordarshan and All India Radio function, Sircar said "It appears that while portions critical of Doordarshan were telecast, certain comments on other personalities were apparently edited" in the Modi interview telecast on April 27.
Stating that "since questions have been raised in the public domain about the impartiality and motives of the public broadcaster", the Prasar Bharati board had "taken several resolutions in the last two years, seeking more operational autonomy from the ministry, but it has failed to do so", Sircar said.
He said that "in a way, therefore, the ministry of information and broadcasting lost an opportunity to convince a young minister (Manish Tewari) to break this long traditional linkage between the ministry and the News Division, which has continued unabated even after Prasar Bharati was born and assigned its distinct role in 1997".
Indicating the manner in which the ministry controls the Prasar Bharati, he said: "The mechanisms of appointment, transfers, career assessments and even punitive actions against senior officials of the News Division are bound to cast a 'shadow', in some form".
A copy of the letter is available with IANS.
Doordarshan had edited out portions from Modi's interview where he had referred to Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and to Congress president Sonia Gandhi's political advisor Ahmed Patel.
The move had created a political storm with the Bharatiya Janata Party alleging government control over the public broadcaster.
........In a strongly-worded letter to the Prasar Bharati board, under which Doordarshan and All India Radio function, Sircar said "It appears that while portions critical of Doordarshan were telecast, certain comments on other personalities were apparently edited" in the Modi interview telecast on April 27.
Stating that "since questions have been raised in the public domain about the impartiality and motives of the public broadcaster", the Prasar Bharati board had "taken several resolutions in the last two years, seeking more operational autonomy from the ministry, but it has failed to do so", Sircar said.
He said that "in a way, therefore, the ministry of information and broadcasting lost an opportunity to convince a young minister (Manish Tewari) to break this long traditional linkage between the ministry and the News Division, which has continued unabated even after Prasar Bharati was born and assigned its distinct role in 1997".
Indicating the manner in which the ministry controls the Prasar Bharati, he said: "The mechanisms of appointment, transfers, career assessments and even punitive actions against senior officials of the News Division are bound to cast a 'shadow', in some form".
A copy of the letter is available with IANS.
Doordarshan had edited out portions from Modi's interview where he had referred to Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and to Congress president Sonia Gandhi's political advisor Ahmed Patel.
The move had created a political storm with the Bharatiya Janata Party alleging government control over the public broadcaster.
Link: http://www.ndtv.com/elections/article/election-2014/after-narendra-modi-interview-prasar-bharati-ceo-talks-of-shadow-of-government-517511
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regards
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