Ah those poor party spokespersons, the hapless warrior of primetime TV!
You see them every night, the men and women with the most powerful lungs on TV. When it comes to the party line they know how to draw the lines. From Lalit Modi to Narendra Modi, from WTO to WWF, for party spokespersons it’s topic no bar, just talk baar baar.
When you speak for the party, you don’t get to party. Instead, as the political heat rises, spokespersons are the sacrificial lambs for night time television TRPs. They are the bullseye in the shooting range for anchors to engage in target practice. Just as you think the BJP’s G V L Narasimha Rao has been vanquished for good by a Read More
