Would Times Now Drag on the Lalitgate till Start of Monsoon Session ?

 Lalit Kumar Modi  ✔@LalitKModi Media owners must realize that they all came to me for favors too. Or to politicians or to my friends. #enoughisenough #letscleanse

Time for @vineetjaintimes is coming. Dossier fully under making. Wait and watch #india's no one #playboy details https://twitter.com/sudhirs30223957/status/615247654470094848 - 29 Jun 2015

                     

Would Times Now drag on the Lalitgate for another three weeks? Would Lalitgate in the coming monsoon session of the Parliament  be the biggest ever victory for the Times Group? But what would it cost to the Times?

Insiders reveal that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was of the view that a section of  media has been exaggerating facts in Lalit gate with a motive to malign  the image of his government. The PM also feels that Congress has connived with a media outlet in a bid to disrupt the forthcoming monsoon session of the Parliament.  

Modi seems to be neither happy with his ‘spin masters’  who failed to contain the high decibel news channels nor he was at ease with the Jains, the owners of the Bennett and Coleman Company which owns Times Now, the most vociferous channel on Lalitgate .

Though Mr Modi has not yet shared his mind over the ongoing controversy with his Cabinet colleagues or top secretaries but his body language has given a clear signal to his lieutenants. According to a close aide of Modi , the Finance Ministry is busy gathering data on owners of two channels- News X and Times Now . 

Both the channels have  launched a nonstop media war against  Modi’s Cabinet as well as BJP’s government in Rajasthan. “ BJP leadership including Amit Shah was of the view that on Sushma front  both the channels exaggerated certain facts and carried deliberate news items to tarnish government’s image.  Shah has taken the so called biased coverage quite personally,” said a BJP MP close to Amit Shah.” 

You don’t know Shah and Modi. If both are convinced that someone is playing the mischief and it has a hidden agenda than the duo would take a subtle way to settle the score. Look what happened to Advani. What happened to bureaucrats, the Sharma brothers of Gujarat? Where is Shashi Ruia now ? Where is Sanjay Joshi of RSS ? ” he added.

                                                                 

Now only on one count Vineet Jain can avoid the inevitable. In case Times Now is pursuing the agenda against  the government  at the behest of someone in the government, he may survive another day. India Samvad Bureau wrote this story in http://indiasamvad.co.in/prime-minister-versus-image-and-vineet-jain-versus-lalit-modi-stage-is-set-for-war/

Media Executive Says, "While Times Samir is into God, Vineet is into women.”

• Lalit Kumar Modi 
  

  ✔@LalitKModi
  Media owners must realize that they all came to me for favors too. Or to politicians or to my friends. #enoughisenough #letscleanse
 Lalit Kumar Modi  ✔@LalitKModi

Time for @vineetjaintimes is coming. Dossier fully under making. Wait and watch #india's no one #playboy details https://twitter.com/sudhirs30223957/status/615247654470094848 …

2:04 AM - 29 Jun 2015

Lalit Modi tweeted, "Time for @vineetjaintimes is coming. Dossier fully under making. Wait and watch #india's no one #playboy" .Sources said that most vulnerable target could be Times Group MD,  Vineet Jain, the man infamous for his lifestyle and private parties. The IB’s top head located in Mumbai have gathered  confidential ‘visual data’ on Vineet’s playboy like lifestyle . The visual CD on Jain can embarrass the Times group if  it is  passed on to someone like Lalit Modi. 

Earlier Lalit has tweeted that he has explosive material on Vineet Jain whom Modi considers to be  a playboy. “ The government could teach a lesson to the Jains like the Congress taught them earlier in case of Vineet’s father Ashok Jain. While Lalit Modi would throw dirt on Vineet at a personal level, the agencies would rake investment issues related to cross-border  financial transactions,” said a Deputy Secretary level official  in Finance Ministry who had the financial dossier on the Times Groups.

In fact Vineet’s elder brother Sameer is out of sight of the agencies due to his saintly type image. Sameer is  mostly occupied with religious works. The real problem lies with Vineet whose lifestyle is no less than Lalit Modi. A few years back the US news magazine The New Yorker carried a story on Jains. Describing Vineet Jain, the magazine said, “ unlike Samir, Vineet is divorced and was often seen in the company of beautiful women; people who don’t know him sometimes mistake him for a playboy. “Samir is into God,” an Indian publishing executive says. “Vineet is into women.”

Vineet is purely a businessman and holds the strings of Times Now. Sources said that in a bid to rake up numbers and balance its image of being a neutral media platform, Arnab picked up the Sunday Times story on Sushma-Lalit Modi affair and played up to maximum. “ Within a week BJP tried to intervene and almost  cornered Arnab,  but it was Vineet Jain who gave the  go ahead to build up the story. 

Times Now’s clone News X was quick to copy. In fact News X owners are sitting ducks for ahencies like ED and DRI. The kind of business the News X’s proprietors  do can put them into trouble at any given point of time,” said a senior journalist once working with Times Now and later with News X.

Unlike Prannoy Roys, Subhash Chandras and Rajat Sharmas,  the Jain brothers hardly move into corridors of power.  “If Jains are in trouble there is hardly anyone except a Bureau Chief in the Newspaper to bail them out. The power networking of Jains is their weakest point. The Jains have themselves admitted to it.  

The New Yorker writes, “ Vineet and Samir share a belief that government affairs and politics should not be the focus of their lives or of their newspapers. Even critics praise them for having no political agenda to advance their business. Hobnobbing with government leaders holds no interest for the Jains.

When President Obama visited India, Vineet declined an invitation to a state dinner. “What will I do?” he said to me. “It’s just meeting somebody, shaking hands. What’s the point?” Besides, he added, “the closer I get to politicians, the more they’ll interfere. It’s a Catch-22. Politicians are no one’s friends.” If he befriended them, they’d call and complain about a story, or pressure him to run a different story. “You start getting calls every day. We don’t get any calls. It’s so easy,” he said, smiling.

Top sources said that financial agencies are in no hurry to initiate any action against the Jains. The officials at ED,CBDT and CBEC are aware that the Jains at the end of the day follow same traditional procedure  of business operations and same formula of making profits. “ Two things are clear. Vineet Jain cannot be a Ramnath Goenka. Secondly  for a TRP hike  or a shift from a political line or for strengthening a brand image you cannot exaggerate the magnitude of a story to such an extent.  Remember Narendra Modi is not a Vajpayee. Modi can forgive a Rajnath or a Uma Bharti.  But he cannot forgive those who have tried to humiliate him. In this case Modi’s humiliation is more than his fault,” said a former TV journalist based in Gujarat.

Now only on one count Vineet Jain can avoid the inevitable. In case Times Now is pursuing the agenda against  the government  at the behest of someone in the government, he may survive another day.ISB wrote this story. 

Similar Incident --- Contrasting Results in Muzaffernagar and Khirkiya Riots

As reported in the media about the violent incident on the last Thursday in Madhya Pradesh's Khirkiya , it seems to be or assumed to be the exact and true version of the incident. Reporting of the incidents have changed recently as the the partisan media some times fail to present partly due to political fear and partly due to their bosses' apathy towards one or other political ideology. 

As we have seen in recent media coverage of Muzafferpur riots, where few of the leading news medias like NDTV , Times Now, IBN 7, Aajtak , Zee News , Headlines Today gave different interpretation of the same incident, often indulged in using the maligned cut-paste practise or tried to show selective portion of the known facts to create a distorted view of the incident and of the subsequent spread of the incident. The fourth watchdog pillar of a democracy, the media has fast deterioration in its transparency and honesty, the basic essence of a media channel.

The thousand strong mob went berserk after a cow carcass was found near a pond in Madhya Pradesh's Khirkiya town's Chipabad area. The rioters ran amok in Kheda area of Khirkiya town of Harda district, setting 10 houses on fire and torching more than a dozen vehicles on Thursday afternoon. According to an eye witness, the rioters shouted "leave the children and woman, but don't spare any man who blocks our passage. Four to five persons who mustered courage to oppose them were attacked with swords and rods. The injured, including a man who suffered head injuries, have been sent to Bhopal for treatment. Those living in Maharana Pratap Chowk in Chipabad area, the first locality rioters targeted were trumalised by fear and narrated the story that even after appeal to the  rioters to spare them, they entered our place of worship, damaged it. 

Authorities were forced to issue shoot-at-sight orders in  Khirkiya town on Friday as the town remained edgy, while hundreds of cops' patrolled empty streets and an indefinite curfew remained in force. Officials confirmed 31 people were arrested and they had to work hard so that the Friday prayers could pass off peacefully at different mosques across the area under heavy police cover.

Now after the incident the police authorities are rigorously scanning the video footage of Thursday's violence, to identify more rioters and arrest them. MP police's special task force and Rapid Action Force jawans have staged a flag-march in Khirkiya and  neighbouring areas and  also  arranged to send immediately (all within 24 hours of the incident)  an heavy reinforcements to the riot-hit town from neighbouring districts. 

SP Dipak Verma assured that no fresh untoward incident has been reported in Khirkiya and neighbouring areas and confirmed that seven cases of arson, rioting and attempt to murder have been filed against the rioters. 

District collector Rajnish Srivastav said the situation was brought under control after the curfew was clamped and the relaxation in curfew would be decided only after carefully watching for the next few days. He said that seven people, critically injured in the violence, are undergoing treatment to a Bhopal hospital.

All the above reporting, if compared to what happened in the neighbouring state UP's Muzafferpur earlier this month, gives us few conclusive views, which people have to visualise, analyse and draw a conclusive judgement :

a) during election time the so called secular or the blamed communal parties plan the nasty ploy and work on that to incite the religion based flare up only to create polarisation of their vote banks ;

b) minority voters are always targeted, crushed, injured, killed, their property damaged; but not always by any communal party but more by the creator of the nasty ploy to create fear of insecurity to be used by the so called secular parties; so as to draw them on their side for protection. A, the poor,weaker and innocent sections of the minorities, always get trapped in that and suffers 90% of all damage to their properties and lives;

c) all these communal riots starts with some natural incidents or due to some planned hate creation;

d) most of the flare up can be stopped by 1} fast and strict non partisan use of force control by the administration 2} by allowing transparent news flow of the incident by the media and the administration, even a joint declaration by all the political parties,administration authorities, social and religious leaders saves escalation of the flare up, but in practise the political parties waits and delays the flow of facts, just to promote the rumour mongers to work to fulfil the nasty polarisation target.

If one analyse all the details on real time basis and draw a honest conclusion ,he will find that most of the riots are only and only political ploys by the so called secular part of the political establishment and amicably supported by all, just to consolidate their  vote bank.

And this conclusion forces us to make a honest question to the recent incident at Muzaffernagar, "Do you still believe Muzaffarnagar riot was not a fixed game ?" I and most will surprise if you say no.