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Two headlines that expose the editorial bias of Indian Express
ByOpIndia Staff
Posted on January 11, 2017
After midnight of Tuesday, Indian Express on Twitter sent out two tweets within a span of 11 minutes. Here are those two in order they appeared on users’ timeline:
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Uttar Pradesh election: Despite Supreme Court order, BJP to hold meets in Dalit areas | http://indianexpress.com/elections/uttar-pradesh-assembly-elections-2017/uttar-pradesh-election-despite-supreme-court-order-bjp-to-hold-meets-in-dalit-areas-4468647/ …pic.twitter.com/TsCYN96BmZ
1:34 AM - 11 Jan 2017
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2017 Assembly polls: Congres invokes Rohith Vemula after touring Dalit villages | http://indianexpress.com/elections/uttar-pradesh-assembly-elections-2017/2017-assembly-polls-congres-invokes-rohith-vemula-after-touring-dalit-villages-4468650/ …pic.twitter.com/DaGGNzEKVq
1:45 AM - 11 Jan 2017
The articles can also be seen on the “elections” page of The Indian Express, published in quick succession:
How Indian Express treats BJP and Congress for the same activity
For the uninitiated, the Supreme Court of India on 2nd January 2017 had barred political parties from canvassing votes on the basis of caste or religion. Consequently, the Election Commission had said that they will implement the orders of the apex court.
Now here are two political parties – Congress and the BJP – holding special rallies for Dalits in Uttar Pradesh to canvass votes in the upcoming assembly elections that will be held in February and March.
Both the parties are trying to woo voters on caste lines, targeting the same caste group, for the same assembly elections. If this is in contravention of the Supreme Court order, both the parties are guilty.
However, The Indian Express thought it necessary to mention about the SC order only while reporting about the BJP rallies. The Congress rally was reported as a matter of fact, with no editorial comments in the headline. In fact, with a helpful mention of Rohith Vemula.
What should the reader conclude? That when Congress targets a specific caste group, it’s deemed ethical and legal by the Indian Express but when BJP does the same, they feel the saffron party is violating orders of the highest court of India?
Does it not betray the editorial bias of The Indian Express?
It is a shameful fall for a newspaper that had once stood in the forefront when fighting Emergency imposed by the Congress. Late Ramnath Goenka will not be amused by these double standards adopted by the newspaper he founded.
In the recent years, Indian Express has often been accused of being biased towards the Congress party. While Anna’s movement was at peak, the newspaper, then under the editorial leadership of Shekhar Gupta, had published a series of articles attacking members of Team Anna. As a result, Arvind Kejriwal recently attacked Shekhar Gupta as ‘dalaal’ of Congress.
This double standard in reporting was first spotted by Twitter user Neha Srivastava. Although the tweets still exist and so do the articles listed in the archive page (as in the image above), when one clicks on the report about Congress, one is redirected to an altogether different article.
Did they just realise that their bias was way too brazen and removed the article on Congress?
ByOpIndia Staff
Posted on January 11, 2017
After midnight of Tuesday, Indian Express on Twitter sent out two tweets within a span of 11 minutes. Here are those two in order they appeared on users’ timeline:
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Uttar Pradesh election: Despite Supreme Court order, BJP to hold meets in Dalit areas | http://indianexpress.com/elections/uttar-pradesh-assembly-elections-2017/uttar-pradesh-election-despite-supreme-court-order-bjp-to-hold-meets-in-dalit-areas-4468647/ …pic.twitter.com/TsCYN96BmZ
1:34 AM - 11 Jan 2017
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The Indian Express ✔@IndianExpress
2017 Assembly polls: Congres invokes Rohith Vemula after touring Dalit villages | http://indianexpress.com/elections/uttar-pradesh-assembly-elections-2017/2017-assembly-polls-congres-invokes-rohith-vemula-after-touring-dalit-villages-4468650/ …pic.twitter.com/DaGGNzEKVq
1:45 AM - 11 Jan 2017
The articles can also be seen on the “elections” page of The Indian Express, published in quick succession:
How Indian Express treats BJP and Congress for the same activity
For the uninitiated, the Supreme Court of India on 2nd January 2017 had barred political parties from canvassing votes on the basis of caste or religion. Consequently, the Election Commission had said that they will implement the orders of the apex court.
Now here are two political parties – Congress and the BJP – holding special rallies for Dalits in Uttar Pradesh to canvass votes in the upcoming assembly elections that will be held in February and March.
Both the parties are trying to woo voters on caste lines, targeting the same caste group, for the same assembly elections. If this is in contravention of the Supreme Court order, both the parties are guilty.
However, The Indian Express thought it necessary to mention about the SC order only while reporting about the BJP rallies. The Congress rally was reported as a matter of fact, with no editorial comments in the headline. In fact, with a helpful mention of Rohith Vemula.
What should the reader conclude? That when Congress targets a specific caste group, it’s deemed ethical and legal by the Indian Express but when BJP does the same, they feel the saffron party is violating orders of the highest court of India?
Does it not betray the editorial bias of The Indian Express?
It is a shameful fall for a newspaper that had once stood in the forefront when fighting Emergency imposed by the Congress. Late Ramnath Goenka will not be amused by these double standards adopted by the newspaper he founded.
In the recent years, Indian Express has often been accused of being biased towards the Congress party. While Anna’s movement was at peak, the newspaper, then under the editorial leadership of Shekhar Gupta, had published a series of articles attacking members of Team Anna. As a result, Arvind Kejriwal recently attacked Shekhar Gupta as ‘dalaal’ of Congress.
This double standard in reporting was first spotted by Twitter user Neha Srivastava. Although the tweets still exist and so do the articles listed in the archive page (as in the image above), when one clicks on the report about Congress, one is redirected to an altogether different article.
Did they just realise that their bias was way too brazen and removed the article on Congress?
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What does Rahul Gandhi want? Even Congress does not know
He jumps from cause to cause and then vanishes after a stray sound-bite.
POLITICS
| 5-minute read | 10-01-2017
SWATI CHATURVEDI
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The BJP calls him god's gift to Narendra Modi. Mayawati turned down an Uttar Pradesh alliance offer with utter contempt. Yes, it's Rahul Gandhi, the heir to the oldest political party in the country who is permanently absent.
Rahul returned from his extended overseas vacation last night and is all set to go off to China with Congress's Uttar Pradesh in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad for a week.
Yes, as his party battles in vital state elections which will be existential for them and are barely five weeks away, Rahul clearly could not care.
While the Congress reels under a truly awful campaign in UP and - if it goes to battle sans an alliance with Akhilesh Yadav - might get reduced to single-digit strength in the state, Rahul is yet to take a call on tickets or allies.
Congress leaders have even stopped wondering if he is going to take a decision at all, so diminished are their hopes.
Consider the following:
1) The "ideology agnostic" strategist with the Midas touch Prashant Kishor was hired with much fanfare. His advent was looked at with huge suspicion by the top leadership of the Congress. The dispirited cadre in UP could not have cared less.
2) The strategist could not really re-invent or do the umpteenth re-launch of brand Rahul Gandhi so he became the story, rather than the party or its leader. Incredibly more press was drawn by "PK" then "RG". This did not happen in the case of his earlier campaigns for Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar.
3) All the ideas mooted by Kishor, such as Rahul or Priyanka Gandhi being the CM face in UP, were turned down by the horrified Congress and assorted members of the Gandhi durbar. Stories kept being planted as how Priyanka would enter the fray and save the party. A trusting media enthralled by Kishor bought the news.
Finally, septuagenarian Sheila Dikshit was reluctantly pressed into service. Incredibly, while making her the CM face, Rahul did not once mention her in his public meetings. Nor did her face figure in the posters. Dikshit and Rahul did not even address public meetings together.
Septuagenarian Sheila Dikshit was reluctantly pressed into service to be Congress's CM face in UP.
PK's "moves" of meeting Congress bête-noire Amar Singh to stitch up an alliance with the SP put the entire leadership back up. State chief Raj Babbar called him a "sound recordist" and was banished from UP for his transgressions.
But wait. In more examples of woolly-headed decision-making, Rahul has now given him another assignment - Uttarakhand.
Confused? Don't be. It's worse for Congress leaders bearing the brunt of the mystery process that is Rahul's decision-making. Says a very senior party leader: "Look at our General. He has left the battlefield weeks before we fight for our existence as a political party. We carried out a huge campaign against notebandi, yet by this vacation he's shot himself in the foot again. Rahul had appeared to be serious about this issue and we were all relieved. Now Modi is controlling the narrative and re-casting himself as Robin Hood."
The fact is that the Congress's campaign in UP is in utter shambles yet inexplicably, despite their mutual admiration society, Rahul is yet to sign on the dotted line for an alliance with Yadav junior.
As is Rahul's normal practice, the party is in the dark and clueless about what he wants.
Even poor Dikshit has been reduced to saying that Akhilesh would be a better CM face than her. Rahul is elusive and inaccessible to all party leaders. This is unlike his mother Sonia Gandhi who knew exactly what was going on in the party but who, in the hope of convincing her reluctant heir, is taking the backseat.
Unfortunately, Congress leaders see it as leadership withering away and no one takes Rahul seriously as he jumps from cause to cause and then vanishes after a stray sound-bite.
Take the case of Punjab, which is the only state where the Congress has a real chance of winning. Amarinder Singh has not yet been declared the official CM face by Rahul who is not comfortable with him.
Singh is fretting while a gleeful Arvind Kejriwal mocks him, saying that Navjot Sidhu is the real CM face.
An elusive Sidhu is yet to make his intent known. Meanwhile, Singh released the Congress manifesto in Delhi and not Punjab, in the vain hope that Rahul would make an appearance and officially anoint him.
The Sidhu factor is bogging the Punjab campaign down as he keeps changing his mind and dates. Says a member of the Amarinder camp bitterly: "Sidhu is treating the Congress like his shoots for the laughter challenge."
So, as the once vibrant party resembles a zombie and fast becomes irrelevant, Rahul seems set to preside over the earthquake that will be unleashed when the results of the elections are declared. The chorus of dissatisfied voices is rising and will hit a crescendo. Rahul cannot duck responsibility this time as all decisions or the lack of them will be his responsibility.
He jumps from cause to cause and then vanishes after a stray sound-bite.
POLITICS
| 5-minute read | 10-01-2017
SWATI CHATURVEDI
@bainjal
The BJP calls him god's gift to Narendra Modi. Mayawati turned down an Uttar Pradesh alliance offer with utter contempt. Yes, it's Rahul Gandhi, the heir to the oldest political party in the country who is permanently absent.
Rahul returned from his extended overseas vacation last night and is all set to go off to China with Congress's Uttar Pradesh in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad for a week.
Yes, as his party battles in vital state elections which will be existential for them and are barely five weeks away, Rahul clearly could not care.
While the Congress reels under a truly awful campaign in UP and - if it goes to battle sans an alliance with Akhilesh Yadav - might get reduced to single-digit strength in the state, Rahul is yet to take a call on tickets or allies.
Congress leaders have even stopped wondering if he is going to take a decision at all, so diminished are their hopes.
Consider the following:
1) The "ideology agnostic" strategist with the Midas touch Prashant Kishor was hired with much fanfare. His advent was looked at with huge suspicion by the top leadership of the Congress. The dispirited cadre in UP could not have cared less.
2) The strategist could not really re-invent or do the umpteenth re-launch of brand Rahul Gandhi so he became the story, rather than the party or its leader. Incredibly more press was drawn by "PK" then "RG". This did not happen in the case of his earlier campaigns for Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar.
3) All the ideas mooted by Kishor, such as Rahul or Priyanka Gandhi being the CM face in UP, were turned down by the horrified Congress and assorted members of the Gandhi durbar. Stories kept being planted as how Priyanka would enter the fray and save the party. A trusting media enthralled by Kishor bought the news.
Finally, septuagenarian Sheila Dikshit was reluctantly pressed into service. Incredibly, while making her the CM face, Rahul did not once mention her in his public meetings. Nor did her face figure in the posters. Dikshit and Rahul did not even address public meetings together.
Septuagenarian Sheila Dikshit was reluctantly pressed into service to be Congress's CM face in UP.
PK's "moves" of meeting Congress bête-noire Amar Singh to stitch up an alliance with the SP put the entire leadership back up. State chief Raj Babbar called him a "sound recordist" and was banished from UP for his transgressions.
But wait. In more examples of woolly-headed decision-making, Rahul has now given him another assignment - Uttarakhand.
Confused? Don't be. It's worse for Congress leaders bearing the brunt of the mystery process that is Rahul's decision-making. Says a very senior party leader: "Look at our General. He has left the battlefield weeks before we fight for our existence as a political party. We carried out a huge campaign against notebandi, yet by this vacation he's shot himself in the foot again. Rahul had appeared to be serious about this issue and we were all relieved. Now Modi is controlling the narrative and re-casting himself as Robin Hood."
The fact is that the Congress's campaign in UP is in utter shambles yet inexplicably, despite their mutual admiration society, Rahul is yet to sign on the dotted line for an alliance with Yadav junior.
As is Rahul's normal practice, the party is in the dark and clueless about what he wants.
Even poor Dikshit has been reduced to saying that Akhilesh would be a better CM face than her. Rahul is elusive and inaccessible to all party leaders. This is unlike his mother Sonia Gandhi who knew exactly what was going on in the party but who, in the hope of convincing her reluctant heir, is taking the backseat.
Unfortunately, Congress leaders see it as leadership withering away and no one takes Rahul seriously as he jumps from cause to cause and then vanishes after a stray sound-bite.
Take the case of Punjab, which is the only state where the Congress has a real chance of winning. Amarinder Singh has not yet been declared the official CM face by Rahul who is not comfortable with him.
Singh is fretting while a gleeful Arvind Kejriwal mocks him, saying that Navjot Sidhu is the real CM face.
An elusive Sidhu is yet to make his intent known. Meanwhile, Singh released the Congress manifesto in Delhi and not Punjab, in the vain hope that Rahul would make an appearance and officially anoint him.
The Sidhu factor is bogging the Punjab campaign down as he keeps changing his mind and dates. Says a member of the Amarinder camp bitterly: "Sidhu is treating the Congress like his shoots for the laughter challenge."
So, as the once vibrant party resembles a zombie and fast becomes irrelevant, Rahul seems set to preside over the earthquake that will be unleashed when the results of the elections are declared. The chorus of dissatisfied voices is rising and will hit a crescendo. Rahul cannot duck responsibility this time as all decisions or the lack of them will be his responsibility.
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Aam admi party with the culture of nepotism.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahom...overnment-s-decisions-not-strictly-legal.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahom...overnment-s-decisions-not-strictly-legal.html
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In "secular" west bengal Ram replaced by rong and Akaashi by Asmaani
http://www.opindia.com/2017/01/west...ter-helps-with-secularism-replaceramwithrong/
http://www.opindia.com/2017/01/west...ter-helps-with-secularism-replaceramwithrong/
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A few days ago I posted here about how the govt was undermining RBI's autonomy. As it turns out RBI's own employees are highly concerned about that. Here is a letter written by RBI's employees' union to Urjit Patel. They are anxious about govt's increasing interference in RBI's functions.
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Captain Arminder singh to contest from Lambi against Parkash Singh Badal ................ye toh lolwa ho gayi Kejri de naal.........he was daring him to contest against Badals ...he just did
will Nelson Mandela of India ( as named by Feku of India) be next Arun Jutte- wala- ly???
oye @ranjeet ......i hope u have ur snacks and bottles ready ....its gonna be a hell of a show down in Punjab
thats cute coming from 12th fail minister................whenever someone questions ur govt. target them instead rather then performing
Governance Feku Style
will Nelson Mandela of India ( as named by Feku of India) be next Arun Jutte- wala- ly???
oye @ranjeet ......i hope u have ur snacks and bottles ready ....its gonna be a hell of a show down in Punjab
thats cute coming from 12th fail minister................whenever someone questions ur govt. target them instead rather then performing
Governance Feku Style
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Captain Arminder singh to contest from Lambi against Parkash Singh Badal ................ye toh lolwa ho gayi Kejri de naal.........he was daring him to contest against Badals ...he just did
will Nelson Mandela of India ( as named by Feku of India) be next Arun Jutte- wala- ly???
oye @ranjeet ......i hope u have ur snacks and bottles ready ....its gonna be a hell of a show down in Punjab
thats cute coming from 12th fail minister................whenever someone questions ur govt. target them instead rather then performing
Governance Feku Style
I hope he is fighting from a safe seat also if not then Captain is taking Kejriwal's bait. Any development on Chottepur? He kind of vanished from the scene all together. No doubt things are getting interesting in Punjab.
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Chottepur is contesting from Gurdaspur......fight is between him and Sitting Akali MLA....very close to call.
Congress is broken here and nominated a new guy....grandson of a ex-Akali MLA from Gurdaspur ....
People dont even know who is contesting from AAP ticket.......
I think He is also contesting from Patiala ...his home ground. ....moreover there are rumors floating around that Sidhu will contest against Sukhbir badal
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I am afraid new entrants might end up dividing the anti incumbency votes and will help Akalis but lets see what happens.
It would be wise if Captain fights from Patiala. Lol I feel sorry for Sidhu, he wanted all but he just might end up with nothing at all.
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