What will the factionalism within the Congress mean for its prospects in Kerala?
Now that Himanta Biswa Sarma is contesting in Assam, even though he said he didn’t want to, is there likelihood of a change in chief minister if the Bharatiya Janata Party returns to power?
But this week we are looking at a couple of developments a little further away from the election spotlight that tell us more about how the BJP is working to entrench its dominance of Indian politics. The obvious caveat to any discussion of BJP success is that Indian politics simply does not present a level playing field to all, which is what we covered on last week’s edition of the newsletter.
âBogusâ quotes and a misrepresented meeting: Journalists disown govt report on âsetting the narrativeâ
Newslaundry spoke to journalists named in a group of ministersâ report on âgovernment communicationâ. Hereâs what they have to say.
Shambhavi Thakur
In June 2020, the Narendra Modi government reached out to âprominent persons from the media fieldâ to help identify strategies to effectively communicate â10 big narratives of the governmentâ. The initiative, led by a group of union ministers who were âguidedâ by the prime minister, summarised recommendations in a report that was submitted to the cabinet secretariat later that year.
The report, parts of which have been accessed by
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On 23 January to commemorate the 125th birth anniversary celebrations of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the President of India unveiled a portrait of the freedom fighter at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The President’s official Twitter handle also posted images from the function.
However, there were soon claims that the portrait unveiled by the President was not of the real Subhas Chandra Bose, but of actor Prosenjit Chatterjee, who played Netaji in a Bengali film that dealt with his mysterious death titled
Gumnaami, directed by Srijit Mukherjee.
President Kovind saluting the portrait of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose that he unveiled.
(Photo Courtesy: Twitter)