Swati Parashar is Associate Professor in Peace and Development Research, Gothenburg University, Sweden. She tweets @swatipash.
Don’t blame the mandate
Doordarshan can hardly influence voting, people’s aspirations have changed.
Amartya Sen’s post-election analysis published in The New York Times and in The Indian Express is both puzzling and absurd. To say that the BJP used state power and machinery, including Doordarshan, to its advantage, is a very blinkered view of both history and electoral processes. During the Congress years, all we saw was Indira, Rajiv and Sonia on Doordarshan, so much so that it felt like Doordarshan belonged to the Congress party (read the Nehru-Gandhi family). I know people who are devoted to Doordarshan, who are not Narendra Modi fans, and would not have voted for Modi. On the contrary, many non-Doordarshan watchers, have, in fact, voted for Modi.
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