Khattar’s attempted Modi act
Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar is trying to follow Prime Minister Narendra Modi in style and strategy. Like his mentor, the firsttime chief minister has shown a penchant
for wearing colourful jackets over kurtas. The pracharak-turned-politician is also not very accessible and likes to keep the conventional media at arm’s length, preferring to communicate mostly through tweets or official handouts. Khattar displayed another new facet of his personality on Friday when some girls called on him at official residence in Chandigarh to thank him for launching the Beti BachaoBeti Padhao (Save Girl Child, Educate Girl Child) campaign in the state. The CM took a selfie with the girls using a ‘selfie stick’. However, there was no way of knowing how well he clicked. A picture of him taking the selfie, and not the selfie, was released by his PR team. While Modi is famous for taking selfies including some really powerful ones, one will have to wait and see how often Khattar pulls out his smartphone for selfies.