Media Vilifying Modi: L K Advani
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- Monday, 09 July 2012 04:55
- Published on Monday, 09 July 2012 14:58
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Gujarat Global News Network, New Delhi
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is receiving support from unexpected quarters. Senior BJP leader L K Advani has come out in support of Modi in his latest blog.
Advani, an MP from Gandhinagar, has claimed that the anti-Modi campaign is “conscious effort at vilification” of Modi. He claimed that there was a systematic campaign going on to malign Modi.
“I have often felt that in India’s political history no political leader has been as systematically and viciously maligned as Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Bhai Modi. Do not these reports also reveal a conscious effort at vilification?” wrote Advani.
Referring to reports in the media about then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s discomfort over former President APJ Abdul Kalam’s visit to Gujarat after the 2002 riots, Advani has written that Vajpayee’s casual query to the then President: “Do you consider going to Gujarat at this time essential?” has been read by the media as the Prime Minister wanting to stop the President from going to Gujarat.
Talking about Kalam’s book, Advani has written, “Dr Kalam has also referred to apprehensions he had heard that his visit may be boycotted. Dr Kalam’s actual experience was totally different. Modi and his government enthusiastically cooperated with Dr Kalam. Yet no newsman thought it worthwhile to report these complimentary observations of his!”
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