“Ayodhya Ram Mandir coverage shows why Western media can’t decode Modi”, First Post, January 25, 2024:
“Hours after returning from the Ayodhya Ram Mandir ‘pran prathistha’ ceremony, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday announced that his government will start the ‘Pradhanmantri Suryodaya Yojana’, a clean energy initiative which will see one crore Indians get solar panels on their rooftops in the coming months. He pulled out a metaphor from Ramayan itself, saying Shri Ram belonged to the Sun dynasty.
“The first decision I have taken after returning from Ayodhya is that our government will launch the Pradhanmantri Suryodaya Yojana with the target of installing rooftop solar on one crore houses. This will not only reduce the electricity bill of the poor and the middle class but will also make India self-reliant in the energy sector,” Prime Minister Modi said, posing for photos with solar panels.
While Narendra Modi revolutionises communication by mixing faith with modernity and contemporary government schemes with ancient metaphors, the Western media has renounced its job to inform or communicate, lowering itself instead into the morass of propaganda, ideological hit-jobs, half-truths, and some downright lies…..”
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