Delhi confidential: Silence is the key

SKEWED VIEW

In a bizarre explanation for what it calls Narendra Modi-Salman Khan bonhomie, the Aligarh-based Forum for Muslim Studies and Analysis has said Khan sharing the stage with Modi and his father Salim Khan designing a website for BJP’s prime ministerial nominee stems from the fact that Khan and four other Bollywood stars are facing trial in Rajasthan in the 1998 black buck poaching case. The forum claims that the Khan clan is angling for a dilution of the case by the BJP government in Rajasthan.

FAIR AND SQUARE
Narendra Modi’s interview to Doordarshan may not have created much ripples in the TRP world but it surely got the Twitter world buzzing. In response to a tweet thanking him for investigating who was blocking the telecast of the Modi interview on Doordarshan and ordering its telecast, Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar tweeted: “Neither favour nor fear: we did our duty, fairly. We’ll do same for RG!” “So was it indeed being blocked ? That’d be a story in itself!!,” asked another tweet.

POLL WALL
With the ongoing elections in India, the schedule for the SAARC conference has been postponed further. The meeting among SAARC nations was supposed to be held in May this year but India has asked the SAARC general secretariat to extend the dates further. The meeting was earlier postponed due to elections in Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh.