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Modi beats Nehru’s record. TV channels & newspapers choose a victory tune over band baaja

On Wednesday evening, after PM Modi made a grand speech to NDA colleagues, he soon became the man of the moment on primetime television news.

In 12 years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reached a summit long occupied by Jawaharlal Nehru.

This is the message from the news media as PM Modi completed 4,399 continuous days in office and thereby overtook Nehru’s 4,398 days as prime minister.

On Wednesday evening, the PM made a grand speech to NDA colleagues and was the man of the moment on prime time television news.

Otherwise, although, the news media played and replayed the PM’s winning streak in office, it did it in a rather muted manner. No band baaja, just a victory tune. Few banner headlines, fewer government-sponsored advertisements, some television discussions and a few opinion pieces in newspapers.

This could be due to the pressure of other news. The I.N.D.I.A bloc meeting Monday on ‘shaky ground’ (India Today), TMC’s ‘tukde tukde’ (Times Now), Israel-Trump-Iran ‘WAR’ (TV9 Bharatvarsh), and how the death of at least 11 people in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir during a crackdown by the Pakistan Army “bathed PoK in red” (News Nation). By Wednesday, Rajya Sabha elections came into focus.

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