An item in the gossip diary in The Telegraph, Calcutta:
Vivek Gupta, the editor of Sanmarg—the Hindi daily that made the cut in Mamata Banerjee‘s evaluation of newspapers that can find a place in Bengal’s libraries—had always dream of visiting the Parliament.
When he took charge of Sanmarg, Gupta informed the Trinamul Congress’s Sudip Bandopadhyay of his wish. Bandopadhyay, the story goes, asked him to come to Delhi and made the necessary arrangements so that Gupta could sit in the visitors’ gallery.
In the evening, he took a flight back to Calcutta, but even bfore he had emerged from the airport, his life had changed—he had been made a Rajya Sabha MP by Didi.
Now that is what we call a fairy tale.
Interesting, if true.
15 May 2012 at 12:19 pm
This is called luck.
15 May 2012 at 12:36 pm
How exactly did this happen? Some more details pls…
15 May 2012 at 1:00 pm
A media without shame or accountability.
15 May 2012 at 5:53 pm
If it’s the CM’s choice, so be it. What’s our problem? And, why can’t a Hindi journalist, or any other journalist for that matter, get nominated to RS? Is there a bar? English editors in the past had been nominated, and no one made a hue and cry…
15 May 2012 at 6:30 pm
That is the power of ‘asking’. Oliver Twist anybody?
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