While the whole world was busy laughing at Rahul Gandhi and how his whole speech at Carmel boomeranged, there was someone who wasn’t. You know, the whole thing when he asked a question and the crowd didn’t quite respond the way he expected and all of that.
That was a little funny to be honest and the media picked up on this and news was made, published, read and shared.
But that’s only one side of it. In her open letter, a final year student of Journalism, Economics and Political Science at Mount Carmel College, Elixir Nahar showed us the other side of what happened and why the media picked on a ‘measly clip’ leaked by an agency and decided to pick on it for all the wrong reasons.
She urged the media to stop ragging Gandhi and also highlight the more important points he made like stressing on the safety of women than shredding an incident into several pieces and blowing it out of proportion.
Calling the news bits as ‘#Misconstrued and #Exaggerated’, she said that RaGa was ‘humourous, and he struck a chord with the audience right from the start, before jumping into the nitty-gritty’. According to her, the best part about what he spoke was how he ‘admitted to things going wrong in Congress which led to their loss in 2014. He spoke about rejuvenating the party and giving it a new face and image.’
Appalled by the several news pop ups she was receiving on her phone about the very speech she was listening to, she said ‘Rahul Gandhi was able to have an intimate conversation between himself and 2500-odd people, and how!’
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