It all started with
http://twitter.com/#!/aparanjape/status/197529651160162305
and then
http://twitter.com/#!/vsengupta/status/197522477033861122
The original article in Business Standard by AK Bhattacharya.
Then i had tweeted a bunch in the morning and left it at that and forgot about the same.
http://twitter.com/#!/centerofright/status/197539159324372992
http://twitter.com/#!/centerofright/status/197539618957164544
http://twitter.com/#!/centerofright/status/197540286489034752
http://twitter.com/#!/centerofright/status/197540590043406336
http://twitter.com/#!/centerofright/status/197540960559837185
http://twitter.com/#!/centerofright/status/197541723000410114
http://twitter.com/#!/centerofright/status/197542062638370816
Then Soutik From BBC Came up with this Gem and a link to his BBC Article with a Headline – Is Gujarat Red Hot Economy a Myth? quoting the same Business Standard article.
http://twitter.com/#!/soutik/status/197635801612427264
The Original BBC Article is Below.
As usual again the crowd went delierious now with even BBC quoting it.
That is when i said enough and put out a challenge of a lakh of rupees for anyone to prove the BS & BBC Numbers or retract and modify.
http://twitter.com/#!/centerofright/status/197694029884956673
http://twitter.com/#!/centerofright/status/197694519842582530
http://twitter.com/#!/centerofright/status/197694765175812096
After the above then the first retraction and corrected article in Business Standard comes up.
Followed by the BBC with a change in Head line – Gujarat IS a Red Hot Economy – Article below.
All i say is, you may have liking or hatred towards Narendra Modi. Try the electoral route to defeat him or try proving that the numbers he quote are wrong with facts and please don’t peddle falsehoods as facts.
Also remember that every state’s growth is a growth for India as a whole. I donot know how folks can forget this simple fact. The reason the negative campaign was to be countered as remembered that a lie repeated N number of times becomes the truth.
P.S. Business Standard carried this correction in their news paper on Page 10 4th May Edition. Just putting it on record.
Awesome expose!
RESPECT to you sir. Congratulations for all that you have achieved. More power to the social media
A job executed till perfection. Kudos.
great stuff………well done……..
Awesome! You really have ensured the mainstream media (should they really be called so, just because they have power to reach more people due to their financial muscle?) must not try to play with facts. But, on TV news channels they massage truth more easily, and escape. Since its daily routine, we can’t keep tab on all of them.
I hope at least the print media will think twice in future before indulging in such practices. Very well done. Thank you.
Salute to @centerright (vijay) grt work
Accept my Pranam Guruwar..
You have demonstrated that any Prudent Indian can take on mighty ones and force them to concede with sheer power of ‘logic and Truth’. More power to you.
BTW, Loved this.” All i say is, you may have liking or hatred towards Narendra Modi. Try the electoral route to defeat him or try proving that the numbers he quote are wrong with facts and please don’t peddle falsehoods as facts.”
Guruwar, do I have your permission to reproduce this post with link at my blogs on WP and Rediff?
Regards,
PI.
Please go ahead
Executed with precision. Must say that you are a doing a very commendable job of countering the falsehoods being spread by mainstream paid media
This is great expose!AK Bhattacharya must be naked now!
Great Job Sir – U r truly called “WAREHOUSE of INFORMATION”
Congratulations again
Already Posted the link on FB (without ur permission, hope u dont mind)
no issue
well done but having read AKB for decade plus, no surpirse to me! He sounds soberly (unlike, say, Malvika Singh) but is no less a Con’s reliable media bhompu than others!
We need more and more ppl like you to uncover the false propaganda going against Gujarat and NAMO
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