RAGA EXPOSES MODI SECRET

Narendra Modi’s oratory is not owed only to the mastery of the teleprompter even though it has been said that he sometimes uses two of them. His flow of words has become legendary at least in Hindi in which language he has become a leading orator. The Prime Minister has, however, been chary of facing questions, which is why there have been no live media conferences in more than four years.

The suspicion that question and answer events of the PM are stage managed with pre- scripted answers has been around for a while. And Rahul Gandhi, a known interpreter of Modi’s maladies, has pounced upon one such event in Singapore in which the interpreter tended to speak more than what the

PM said in his reply to a question.

The Congress president openly made fun of the PM saying it is as well that there are no Prime Ministerial press conferences as he cannot take spontaneous questions. He can hardly be expected to answer them in his otherwise glib oratorical style.

It does not seem to have mattered that the charge of micro managed Q& A and Town Hall sessions comes from a personality who, when he speaks at public events, has even had trouble expressing whether Karnataka is in Bangalore or Bangalore is in Karnataka. Tweeple have seized upon the debate both ways, making fun of the PM as well as supporting him saying this is the way it is done for the chief executive of the country. Needless to say, the flow of thoughts in either direction have been spontaneous in the social media.