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Shekhar Gupta: The art of politics through headline management

If big politics is now mostly about headline management, BJP has emerged its unassailable practitioner

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Shekhar Gupta
Look back at the headlines screaming out of your front pages that caused prime time shout-rage about a week ago. They were all about the nephew-uncle duo of Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi, and the money they had stolen from Punjab National Bank. In their wake, came Vikram Kothari of Rotomac Pens and sundry others, in the sub-Rs 10-billion zone. It seemed there was a run on public sector banks (PSBs).

It wasn’t good for a government that came to power on the plank of fighting corruption. Critics and the Congress were mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for claiming to be
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