Wild media speculations
- Hueiyen Lanpao Editorial :: May 26, 2014 -

As Prime Minister-designate and BJP leader Narendra Modi is all set to be sworn in as the 14th Prime Minister of India on May 26, it is but natural for the people across the country to want to know who would be included and who would be left out from the new Ministry.

But it seems that more than anyone else including the Ministerial-berth hopeful BJP leaders themselves and their supporters, media is having a field day these days speculating over who would be chosen, picked and blessed by Narendra Modi to join his Ministry or whether Narendra Modi would opt for smaller and leaner Cabinet keeping in tune with his agenda of ‘minimum government, maximum governance’.

In the event of a smaller Cabinet, then, would BJP heavyweights like Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Ravi Shankar Prasad would be among those to be inducted and who are the possible leaders from among the BJP allies like Shiva Sena, Telugu Desam Party, Lok Janshakti Party, etc that could be accommodated in Modi’s team to steer the course to which India would be heading for, at least for the next five years?

These are the speculations that the media have been doing the rounds for a while now, even though Narendra Modi is yet to finalise and submit the list of his Cabinet Ministers to President of India.

As we said earlier, it is but natural for the people to want to know who would be inducted in the Modi Ministry and who would be left out, and it is this wish of the people that media is trying to fulfil.

But speculating over everything is something that should be avoided by media at all cost; otherwise the credibility of media could be at stake, when the same speculation turns out to be nothing but that – speculation.

With its speculation over everything, media could very well act as a catalytic agent in hastening the process of something which may or may not be in the making, if not totally non-existent, as well.

Speculation over the fate of State Governors appointed by the outgoing UPA Government if the BJP led NDA Government comes to power is just one such un-media like activity, where it should be better lay off its antennae.

It is true that when a new political party comes in power and forms the next Government at the centre, it is natural for the new political party in power not to have anything related to the earlier political party or the Government. But media should understand that it is not such an easy task to accomplish that, because a sudden snap between the relation between Centre and the State relations is anything but like by any party in power in a federal democratic set up.

Moreover, any new Government at the Centre would have its hands full on in trying to put the new administration on its track first, so what happen or what the administration at the State level should be like is something that is remotely connected to any newly sworn in Government.

But media only hasten that, not by the action of the newly sworn in Government but by its wild speculations.