Ditching the Times Group

IN Media Watch Briefs | 27/03/2017

Why did the PM and his ministers and bureaucrats, and Chandrababu Naidu (whose state is an official partner of the summit)  all pull out of the ET  global summit at the last minute? It started on March 27. The reason offered by a gossip portal, that the PM and his men were upset with ET because of its build up to Akhilesh Yadav before the elections,  does not explain a last minute ditch. But the paper seems to be trying to make up. Each of the  first four pages of today's ET had prominent stories on the PM with his picture.             

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