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News Coverage on 'Bharat Bandh' Exposes Media Hypocrisy

By Titu Shadowson
The IPL is over leaving behind it a trail of controversies, yet the
people can’t stop talking about “strike rates”. National Democratic
Alliance (NDA) has called a democratically political strike against
the unjust hike in prices of essential goods by UPA ruled
government of India. When BJP lead NDA launched a democratic
strike, UPA launched undemocratic strikes on the democratic
strikers through its stick friendly Thullas(cops) and Congress-pet
media houses launched disinformation strikes against the same. I am
only trying to calculate whose strike rate is greater.
Strikes and roadblocks have been evolved in India as a major mean
of displaying democratic protests. Every party organizes the
strikes against the ruling party. Congress used organize strikes
during BJP regime, BJP is organizing strikes in congress regime.
And now even congress organizes strikes at provincial level at BJP
ruled provinces. And have a recent example of a highly disputed
strike, February 28, 2012, CPM organized strike against TMC in West
Bengal.
Not surprisingly, quite expectedly; the media coverage on the two
different strikes is different. And this exposes the media
hypocrisy.
Zee News, Star News, Aaj Tak which always glorified, justified and
with the editors’ great analytical abilities made every possible
attempt to indoctrinate the audience into the benefits of such
strikes, use their same analytical abilities to blame and malign
BJP to disturbing the normal life of the public. The secret behind
this U-turn is the political sponsorship and paid-news strategies.
The same aspect bears different meanings for different parties.
When BJP organizes strike, its unjust; and when Congress strikes,
its justified. Most of the electoral campaigns for congress are
done by the petro-dollar greedy media rather than its
functionaries.
Most shameless is the attitude of the Bengali media towards the
strike. In West Bengal the CM, the greatest political dramatist
ever seen, had announced yesterday that each absentees from their
offices would be scrutinized for his past performance and his
salary for the day would be seized. Actually Mamata Bannerjee knows
it in her heart of hearts that she has been elected as CM by the
biggest historical mistakes of the Bengalis. So she wants to hush
up every political protest in her state to ensure her longevity of
regime. Similar strategy was adopted on 28 Feb strike called by
CPM. As expected, the CPM sponsored channels like 24 Ghanta and
Akash Bangla deeply criticized the state’s fascist policies to hush
up the rebel voices. They were accompanied by Star Anando, a
virtual mouthpiece of the congress. Star Anando is known among the
Bengalis as a “Bazari” channel which is known for changing sides
according as the allies Congress decides. Recently the Congress is
fighting a cold war against the TMC, so Star Anando is relentlessly
criticizing TMC. On the other hand TMC pets like Channel 10,
Kolkata TV, News Time etc were blindly justifying the Mamata
strategy. They even justified how on that day the workers (TMC
supporters) carried out picnics in their offices itself: hospitals,
schools, post offices and even in the Reuters Buildings. However
today on the same state-sponsored fascist method, none open their
mouth. The communist mouthpieces and Star Anando; all were
maligning BJP only.
On 28 Feb, the police carried out relentless lathicharge on the
protestors and in the same old CPM style, TMC sponsored goons were
wrecking havoc on the common people side by side. The drama was a
long one and included numerous climaxes. Firstly; Partha Pratim
Ghosh, a young correspondent of Star Anando was kicked like
football on the street itself by the TMC cadres and the footage was
caught on communist cameras. Though he was very slightly injured
with hardly any intolerable pain; the anchor Suman Sarkar in his
evening-debate misinformed the public that he was admitted in ICU
of a private hospital; in order to draw public sympathy that can be
encashed to high amount of TRP. Secondly; CPM leader Tapas
Chatterjee vandalized a school named Gopalpur Ramkumar Kamala
Vidyalaya. Thirdly; the service revolver of a security official on
guard of Rajarhat based TMC leader and strongman Sabyasachi was
looted allegedly by the CPM operatives. The policed searched the
entire area and arrested so many people ranging from young to old,
well built to handicapped, sleeping to eating, everyone they
previously listed. The arrests were justified by the pro-TMC media
units and were criticized by the anti-TMC houses. Today exactly the
same thing has happened: around a thousand of the BJP operatives
were arrested by the police. Planned strikes were carried on them
by the TMC cadres. The police recklessly lathicharged even the
female supporters of the BJP. Madan Mitra threatened the BJP
supporters with stern consequences that will destroy their lives.
None knows what will happen to them! The dictator CM had already
threatened the protesters on 28 Feb, “We will take such stern
action against those, that now onwards none would ever dare to call
any strike.” Isn’t it the same Mamata who was known for calling
strikes? Mamata has a fake educational PHD from a nonexistent
American university, but she certainly has a real PHD quality:
Perfectly Hypocrite Dictator. Well, now these atrocities on the BJP
operatives are condemned by not even a single news channel, be it a
communist or an anti-communist!
A shameless politically motivated media war was going on during the
TMC’s strike. The pro-TMC papers were borrowing leaves from TMC’s
press release saying that the strike a mess and there was full
attendance in all offices. This theory was challenged by the Akash
Bangla, 24 Ghanta and Star Anando which said that the strike was
successful. Strangely this time everyone is shedding tears for the
disturbance of the public normalcy. Just like a strike called by
non BJP parties offer the public some invisible compensations.
Strange! Shame!
All the Bengali media houses were propagating that the BJP’s strike
is not supported by mass and everywhere in Bengal the strike is
forced on the public. Let us have a look on the headlines various
media houses adopted on the strike:
Kolkata TV: Julumbajir Bandh (Strike of Atrocities)
Star Anando: Hoiranir Bandh (Strike of Harassment)
News Time: Gajorir Bandh (Strike of Force)
The anti-BJP parties and their media-puppets launched several
disinformation missions against the BJP. To communalize the strike
TMC and CPM supporters from anti-Hindu communities has torn BJP’s
political flags in various areas of West Bengal like Andul of
Hawrah, Kalna, Katva and Burdwan. As obvious and expected the BJP
operatives retaliated and as pre planned, TMC pet police nabbed
them even before they embarked on the retaliation. Everyone know
that in India only the Hindus are communalized, so in West Bengal,
most desperately. The BJP operatives would face deadly communal
charges on them. Except Andul, all the areas were in Burdwan
region, the only Bengali region where Hindus still feel safety,
though in recent days there are various communal assaults on Hindus
politically backed by the anti-Hindu politicians. So Asansol and
nearby areas observed huge success of strike and shops and
transport were shut here.
All the political parties through their media puppets carried out
propaganda against BJP that their strike didn’t have mass support.
For that purpose they highlighted that there is exams going on at
graduation level in some colleges. Oh really? Graduation exams on
May? They should have tried saying competitive exams, which would
sound really rational in May month! However on 28 Feb there were
several matriculation exam participant among those picked up by the
police. They could not sit in exams and the entire year is lost for
them. Not just a single year, actually 3 years. The bullshit
Bengali educational system is such that once a student fails in
board exam, he/she is dumped for two more years, his/her answer
sheet is given marks without checking; this is said about them. Ask
any Bengali teacher or student. Then only anti-TMC channels were
criticizing that, pro-TMC were silent. And now, everyone is
shouting. Strange!
Even they telecasted that common people were pushing the BJP
supporters off the railway track as they were blocking the trains.
It was aimed to propagate that common people didn’t respond to the
BJP’s strike. In reality those “common people” were very common,
not from the train, but from the surrounding areas; the local TMC
supporters.
Madan Mitra, the great transport minister of West Bengal held a
press conference in the Reuters Buildings. A mistaken reporter
asked him how BJP could “wreck havoc” in various parts of West
Bengal? This was the time when Madan Mitra made his biggest
mistake, associating BJP to CPM. “Where is BJP? In West Bengal, BJP
is nowhere. Today we have seen forced strikes in north Bengal, in
south Bengal, in Kolkata, everywhere. But where is BJP? In Bengal,
BJP is nowhere. Actually CPM operatives are doing all these under
BJP’s flag.”
Really? Then why arrest the BJP leaders, why not the communists? If
BJP has no base, then how can Badabazar Area, one of the most
important area of Kolkata, is controlled by BJP? Why did they
arrest 3 powerful BJP councilors from central Kolkata? It is true
that BJP is yet to win any single seat in West Bengal, but that
doesn’t mean BJP is baseless in Bengal. The CPM has 41% voters in
West Bengal, but where is that stats in case of seats? Let me
explain this logic pretending to be magic.
Consider an electoral area with 100000 voters. CPM wins 30000
votes, TMC 40000 and BJP 30000. As a majority the seat goes to TMC
and then all the other stats for TMC and CPM become useless. Their
vote share is 30%, 30%, and 40% but seat share is 0%, 0% and 100%.
That’s the logic. In reality, in many electoral areas, BJP was on
lead. BJP has base in West Bengal, all it needs is good leadership.
It’s not that BJP needs Bengal, but Bengal needs BJP.
CPM and TMC both are equally pro-Muslim and equally divert public
attention and malign BJP. Both of them associate BJP with each
other, under the indication of their Islamic masters so that people
always remain confused on BJP and the only Hindu-caring party never
makes it into West Bengal; their first target after victory in
Kashmir.
Madan Mitra tried to shed crocodile tears for the transport workers
but he is a terrible actor, he needs to take up classes from Amir
Khan on how to shed crocodile tears. If someone is thinking how big
a sympathizer this man is for the transport workers then please
lend me an ear.
24 Jan 2012; the transport minister Madan Mitra shockingly
announced that they are going to cut down the number of employees
on the Calcutta Transport Corporation and are withdrawing the
subsidy. Else how could they arrange comfort for the Muslims! They
can increase subsidy for Haj but not for public developments, this
is the real face of secular Bengal. “Even if transport employees
remain unpaid, we can do nothing,” said Madan Mitra. After the
shock, on 25th a CTC employee named Vikram Singh working in the
Ghasbagan depot of Hawrah, committed suicide leaving behind him his
pregnant wife with no money to feed her unborn baby and herself; he
was working since last 2 years and was unpaid since last 4 months.
Madan Mitra hardly uttered any single word of sympathy. On 29 Jan
he said, “How could we subsidize the transport? Will we bring money
from America?” He also maligned the transport employees to be
working for CPM and taking salaries from department; in the same
line Mamata maligned dead Hindu farmers as CPM cadres and
businessmen. The same Madan Mitra is now trying to shed crocodile
tears!
Well, there is another aspect on the coverage by media that
reflects their anti-Hindu strategy. The strike has been called by
NDA and not alone by BJP, and in fact non-NDA parties like SP and
CPI too participated in the strike at regional level. NDA alley,
JDU participated in Bihar. They all used the same “brute force”
that BJP is using. Still the maligning coverage fell on BJP only.
Why? Because only the BJP cares about Hindus and only it deserves
the wrath of pro-Islamic media houses. Even the JDU is extremely
shameless Muslim appeaser.
Media houses need to understand that the public is not so moron as
they think. The day is coming when the media-hypocrisy will be
exposed and the media disinformation agents will receive what they
deserve.
Analysis by Titu Shadowson, asansolnews
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Disclaimer: The author is a commentator on issues of national
interest. These are his personal views and do not necessarily
reflect IBTL's opinion.
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