Aam Aadmi Party`s honeymoon with media seems to be over: Arun Jaitley

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New Delhi: Senior BJP leader and Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley said on Monday that Aam Aadmi Party`s honeymoon with media seemed to be over. Writing on his official site Jaitley said, “The media honeymoon of the Aam Aadmi Party seems to be over. Even though media extensively reports the activities of the party it is now willing to put the party to a serious scrutiny as any other political party. The excessive media coverage to the party had made the AAP as the ‘television opponent’ of the BJP even when the ‘field opponent’ continued to be the Congress.” He further said, “A curious video has now been loaded on to the YouTube. The video shows that the president of the AAP is in close conversation with the anchor of a leading news channel subsequent to the recording of his interview. Both are conversing the possible emphasis and the editing of the interview. They are strategizing as to which parts are to be highlighted and the ones which may cost the AAP leader the middle class support are to be played down.” The BJP leader also writes, “We have never been fortunate to be extended such a privilege by any anchor or media organization. Friendly and collusive interviews intended to cultivate a particular image is a strategy of the AAP. This clearly shows the party and its leader pretending to be what they are not. They project the image of themselves which is unreal. Between reality and projection there is a complete mismatch. When `punya` meets `paap` you don’t expect a conspiracy.” A video showing AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal asking a TV news anchor to emphasise certain sections of his interview went viral on YouTube on Sunday night. The video, which is over a minute long, shows Kejriwal and the news anchor in a conversation after the interview, PTI reported. During the conversation, Kejriwal is seen asking the TV anchor to give emphasis on certain segments of the interview. "Please play it up more," Kejriwal said in the video. To this, the television anchor was seen saying: "Yes, we will play it up. The Bhagat Singh (comment) is good. We will get a lot of reaction to this." The interview was apparently given by Kejriwal after he resigned as Delhi Chief Minister. Incidentally, the video was made public on the day when Kejriwal criticised the media and accused a certain section of being biased against him. With PTI inputs