Baniyaspeaks

The run up to the 15th Lok Sabha  This first in my series of article on run up to the next general election .I have deliberately given the title 15th Lok Sabha and not ‘19 as I am not fully sure that it will happen in ‘19 , it could take place earlier as well as PM has already floated the idea of ONE nation ONE Election.  NDA is completing four years of its rule and than the citizen will again vote for the next parliament. Time really flies , it almost seems like yesterday when NAMO was coroneted as the PM against all odds and actually won with complete majority on its own . The indian electorate gave a complete majority to any party after exactly 30 years The last one was in ‘84 when it gave complete majority but was in a very different circumstances. The next general election will be either a vote for Modi or against Modi . The team modi is already pitching this Election as a referendum or presidential form of Election. The team modi ie Mod...

“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses”  - Malcolm X Press has been touted as the fourth pillar of democracy . It is supposed to be the watchdog and bridge between government and its subject . It is a powerful mechanism to voice the citizens concern towards government and help create opinion  in absence of media general public cannot know about what kind of bills and acts are passed in the parliament, and what are their positive and negative effects in the society. If media person close their eyes the government officials will do what they want, so media is "suppose" to plays a very important and "impartial" role between government activities and general public, so much so that it is said that the freedom of media is the guarantee of success of republic government . Thus the conventional media en...