That there are opinionated journalists & publications is not a new thing in India or elsewhere. But some get so blinded in their hate for a particular party or person, they lose their sense of balance, when they write or speak of them.
One prime example is Ms. Rana Ayyub and her columns in DNA India on 9th July on Amit Shah
There are infact two columns, as if one was not sufficient!
1. The importance of being Amit Shah
Ms. Ayyub starts off in this column, mentioning an 'unnoticed piece of news' on the release of Abhay Chudasma on bail by the court in the Sohrabuddin encounter case. After a preamble on the infamy of this man, which is all hearsay, she jumps on to the arrest of Amit Shah in the same case, giving titbits on how pally both Chudasma & Shah were.
That Chudasma was arrested in 2010, that he was in jail for 4 years and was in a Mumbai jail & was granted bail by the Mumbai High court, along with 2 others, is of little consequence for furthering her diatribe.
Now is it a crime, if a Home minister of a state knows his Police officers, with whom he interacts as it is his job?
That it is not for "The First Time" that a sitting minister has been arrested as she would like us to believe.
She goes in great details in the purported allegations of the CBI in its chargesheet against Chudasma none of which has been proven even after Chudasma was incarcerated.
Further without any evidence Ayyub calls Chudasma as a corrupt officer and as being mentored by Shah, whatever that means.
Now having badgered Chudasma, she links him up with Shah grandiosely stating " The reason we are discussing the case of this corrupt IPS officer is because it reveals a great deal about his mentor Amit Shah" What is that revelation, goes unsaid.
Now that she has made her case with that one insinuation, she goes ahead with her tirade against Shah. It is again in the same vain that she used to buttress her case against Chudasma.
Being made a minister in Modi's cabinet with multiple portfolios, the long winding story on Haren Pandya, all which read more like a crime thriller than a journalistic column. Every person known to Mr. Shah is either his chela, favourite, crony or somebody who has one or all of these epithets. Meandering on as how he is Modi's chela, favourite, crony....and then much more!!
2. A New low in Indian Politics
Probably not happy with her first column or that she had not finished yet, she writes in this:
The CBI court in Mumbai where the Sohrabuddin case is being heard, adjourned the case against Amit Shah, based on "excuse" as his "fate" was being sealed in Delhi! Really?!
Then she adds a snippet on the transfer of Justice Utpat of the Mumbai CBI court to Pune "before he could preside over Shahs discharge application" . Is it an insinuation against the High court of Maharashtra under whom the Judge is serving or a nudge nudge hint that this transfer happened on the saying of Shah?
Then her credentials of take up another few paragraphs, to justify her rantings, which are rehashed versions of her earlier writings since her days in Tehleka. The unsubstantiated & unproven mudslinging continues with the same bitterness that has not found any takers in the elections since 2005.
Suddenly with no connection to her earlier tirade, she bestows her pity on the poor ailing 89 years old Governor of Gujarat. If the Governor is ailing as she says, isn't it time for her to retire?
One fails to understand (A) What is the agenda? (b) What purpose do such columns serve? (c) Are mindless allegations being cloaked as healthy criticism.
Does this lady really think that the people who read are brainless, senseless morons?!!
One prime example is Ms. Rana Ayyub and her columns in DNA India on 9th July on Amit Shah
There are infact two columns, as if one was not sufficient!
1. The importance of being Amit Shah
Ms. Ayyub starts off in this column, mentioning an 'unnoticed piece of news' on the release of Abhay Chudasma on bail by the court in the Sohrabuddin encounter case. After a preamble on the infamy of this man, which is all hearsay, she jumps on to the arrest of Amit Shah in the same case, giving titbits on how pally both Chudasma & Shah were.
That Chudasma was arrested in 2010, that he was in jail for 4 years and was in a Mumbai jail & was granted bail by the Mumbai High court, along with 2 others, is of little consequence for furthering her diatribe.
Now is it a crime, if a Home minister of a state knows his Police officers, with whom he interacts as it is his job?
That it is not for "The First Time" that a sitting minister has been arrested as she would like us to believe.
She goes in great details in the purported allegations of the CBI in its chargesheet against Chudasma none of which has been proven even after Chudasma was incarcerated.
Further without any evidence Ayyub calls Chudasma as a corrupt officer and as being mentored by Shah, whatever that means.
Now having badgered Chudasma, she links him up with Shah grandiosely stating " The reason we are discussing the case of this corrupt IPS officer is because it reveals a great deal about his mentor Amit Shah" What is that revelation, goes unsaid.
Now that she has made her case with that one insinuation, she goes ahead with her tirade against Shah. It is again in the same vain that she used to buttress her case against Chudasma.
Being made a minister in Modi's cabinet with multiple portfolios, the long winding story on Haren Pandya, all which read more like a crime thriller than a journalistic column. Every person known to Mr. Shah is either his chela, favourite, crony or somebody who has one or all of these epithets. Meandering on as how he is Modi's chela, favourite, crony....and then much more!!
2. A New low in Indian Politics
Probably not happy with her first column or that she had not finished yet, she writes in this:
The CBI court in Mumbai where the Sohrabuddin case is being heard, adjourned the case against Amit Shah, based on "excuse" as his "fate" was being sealed in Delhi! Really?!
Then she adds a snippet on the transfer of Justice Utpat of the Mumbai CBI court to Pune "before he could preside over Shahs discharge application" . Is it an insinuation against the High court of Maharashtra under whom the Judge is serving or a nudge nudge hint that this transfer happened on the saying of Shah?
Then her credentials of take up another few paragraphs, to justify her rantings, which are rehashed versions of her earlier writings since her days in Tehleka. The unsubstantiated & unproven mudslinging continues with the same bitterness that has not found any takers in the elections since 2005.
Suddenly with no connection to her earlier tirade, she bestows her pity on the poor ailing 89 years old Governor of Gujarat. If the Governor is ailing as she says, isn't it time for her to retire?
One fails to understand (A) What is the agenda? (b) What purpose do such columns serve? (c) Are mindless allegations being cloaked as healthy criticism.
Does this lady really think that the people who read are brainless, senseless morons?!!
