BJP president Nitin Gadkari has shown a marked preference for the moderate style of party icon Atal Bihari Vajpayee rather than the shrill Hindutva of L.K. Advani. And now has also fallen back on the former prime minister’s former media adviser.
Ashok Tandon, who is director of the Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication, has said he cannot leave his present job to join Gadkari’s team but agreed to advise him pro bono.
After all, the Nagpur politician is a complete stranger and rank political outsider for the national media.
Gadkari recently showed he had much to learn on media management as he left a clutch of editors belonging to the Editors’ Guild of India muttering under their breath after he failed to arrive for an appointed interaction and informed them of his inability just 10 minutes before it was to begin.
The reason: his helicopter had failed to take off from Haridwar where he gone for a Kumbh dip and he had not reckoned with such an eventuality untill it was too late.
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