Ad praising Modi puts Congress leaders in a fix
Gujarat Global News Network, Ahmedabad
An advertisement praising ten year rule of Chief Minister Narendra Modi in Gujarat has put Congress leader in Gujarat and in Delhi in a fix. While Congress leaders have tough time explaining this blunder as a satire, supporters of Modi have it as an endorsement of Modi by his main adversary Congress.
Party leaders claim that they had planned a pull out to be distributed alongwith newspapers to highlight the fact that Gujarat was a progressive state from the beginning. They claim that it was to silence Chief Minister Narendra Modi who gives impression that all this was his creation.
But, in a glaring example of lack of imagination on the part of content generator and lack of coordination on the part of its top leaders, the pull out turn out to be publicity material in favour of Modi. Congress leaders claim that it was satirical. But it was just flat praise of Modi like other chief Ministers whose achievements were also mentioned in the pull out.
The pull out was distributed along with a leading Gujarati Daily, Divya Bhaskar, on Republic Day. Since January 26 was a holiday in newspapers, the pull out went round as a viral campaign for full 48 hours. In a way it was double dhamaka by Congress to celebrate Modi’s achievement.
Congress leader Rajiv Shukla claimed "It's a sarcastic comment on Narendra Modi. He has been ridiculed in the advertisement. His predecessors did a better job,". But the fact is that the pull out does not make this sense. Congress describes him as a "master organizer and an astute election strategist" in the coloured advertisement.
More still, it credits Modi for striving to turn Gujarat into a vibrant state. The pull-out, 'Gujarat: Prarambh Thij Pragatisheel' (Gujarat: progressive since beginning) gives a graphic account of contributions by all chief ministers, including Modi, to drive home the point that the state's progress is due to its enterprising people.
"Our attempt was to celebrate the enterprise of Gujaratis, not any individual. Hence, we have compiled contributions of all CMs irrespective of their political parties who held offices since 1960, when Gujarat was born. A false propaganda is being unleashed to misguide the people of the state," Congress spokesperson Manish Doshi said in a statement on Friday, struggling to explain the blunder.
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