So just making a woman as Defence minister doesn't make Hindutva bigots champions of equality. We can see what Sushma Swaraj is reduced to
Marry 4 of them and then dump them by saying 'Talqa', the perfect example of gender equality.
https://dynastycrooks.wordpress.com...s-of-children-in-up-but-still-got-a-bad-name/
For several weeks now, the media has been chasing child death stories in Uttar Pradesh, blaming every single one of them personally on Yogi Adityanath. We have all seen the headlines.
Tragic. And we must pressure the government mercilessly until every single avoidable child death is successfully prevented in India.
But surely the right question to ask is whether the health situation in UP remains the same, is getting worse or is improving. If it is getting worse, let thunder fall on the new government. If it is the same, that’s a disappointment. If it has improved, let us recognize it.
So Thank you Firstpost for omitting from your headline that the 49 deaths happened over a period of 30 days. That is little over 1 patient a day in a large government hospital.
We have seen a lot of hitjobs against the BJP and its state governments, but this new line of attack is by far the lowest that the mainstream media has sunk.
Underlying the media overdrive is a cold, cynical calculation that the issue here is so emotionally charged that it rules out the possibility of a rational response from the other side based on facts.
Because, who would like to speak on the issue of deaths, that too the deaths of innocent children, mostly infants? When you raise an issue like this, you can always expect the majority of the public to come down on the side of emotion driven outrage. Any effort to put the matter in context will be seen as “justifying child deaths”, which will ensure that bringing out the facts will ironically make the fact checker look bad.
Take this :
Again, tragic. But what most of those clickbait media headlines don’t tell you is this :
In the same Jan–Aug period of 2014, there were 3828 kids who died at the same BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur. In 2015 it was an even more shocking 4601 and in 2016 it was 3758.
If you take the average of the numbers in 2014, 2015 and 2016, it works out to be 4062 deaths in the Jan to Aug period.
Now in 2017, the number for the same Jan — Aug period is 1285.
That is a fall of almost 70% in the number of child deaths in BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur.
Subtracting this year’s 1285 from the average of 4062 in previous years, we can confidently estimate that close to 2800 little angels have been saved this year. In just ONE Medical College in Gorakhpur.
Is there any other explanation that can be there for child deaths suddenly falling by 70% in a single year as soon as BJP comes to power?
As I said before, we should mercilessly hold the government accountable until every last avoidable child death is successfully prevented.
But when there is a spectacular performance by a government, such as saving 2800 little angels in just one hospital, we have to recognize it.
And that is not just because I like Yogi Adityanath. It’s a simple matter of providing incentives in hopes of a better outcome. Unless we as a people start rewarding good performance, how will we incentivize political parties to deliver that good governance?
When a government successfully brings down child deaths by 70%, we must make sure everyone hears about it. Otherwise, will there be any incentive for political parties to focus on good governance rather than caste, language and religion?
This is why I said the media hitjob on child deaths in Uttar Pradesh is one of the most disgusting lows in the history of fake news. The issue of child deaths is so emotional that the fake news around it is structured so as to scare away fact checkers by making them feel like “bad people”.
But think for a moment about those who wrote those screaming headlines about children dying by hundreds in Uttar Pradesh. They are the ones who deliberately take the data out of context to make the man they hate look bad. It automatically follows that these same people wouldn’t care if a secular government comes back to power in UP and an extra 2800 innocent children die every year.
Over a five year term, that is 14000 children dead. In just one hospital in Gorakhpur.
And the ones who wrote the screaming headlines deliberately taking the data out of context would rather have 14000 children die than see a BJP government in Lucknow.
That’s the darkness in the cold hearts of those who are carrying on this media propaganda of the numbers of child deaths in UP.
It really is about good vs evil this time. One side would rather have 14000 children die than see the BJP win. Again, that’s 14000 in just one hospital in Gorakhpur. Think about the full number across the vast expanse of Uttar Pradesh.
And those with these stone cold hearts will try to shame you from sharing the truth. I say let’s not be scared. Please spread the truth far and wide. This is for the children.
, you can continue discussing/dissing him
