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Publication: Media Crooks
Date: April 19, 2019
URL:      http://www.mediacrooks.com/2019/04/indias-worst-dalal.html?m=1

Public figures like to leave a legacy that they could be remembered by. Some of our media crooks too have legacies. Rajdeep Sardesai will forever be remembered for his 2002 inflammatory reporting, Cash4Votes and his Madison thuggery. Barkha Dutt too will be remembered for her bogus reporting on 2002, Radiagate and her Kargil deceptions. Prannoy Roy will be remembered for scams, money laundering and tax evasions. Shekhar Gupta will be remembered most for his infamous “coup story”. SG will also be remembered for turning Indian Express into a Congress-slave, being a Lutyens “Dalal” and for acquiring six vast farm-houses. Journos are not very bright people. They are academically poor, have poor GK and exceptionally bad at anything involving Math or history. Add to this poverty of talent and skill a mix of spinelessness, boot-licking and you get Shekhar Gupta. Just sample the moron on his comment about Kautilya:
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Ritu @RituRathaur
Kautliya invented taxation system which is part of ArthShastra (economics),, he is the force & vision behind India's great Maurya Empire
He is our civilizational pride
But how will 10 JP doormats like @ShekharGupta understand this?
For them life begins from Nehru & ends at Sonia!

Shekhar Gupta @ShekharGupta
Any insights on why Income Tax HQ in Mumbai's Bandra-Kurla Complex is called Kautilya Bhawan? Didn't we think Kautilya is more about high strategy, diplomacy and complex statecraft?
8:02 AM - Apr 14, 2019
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I have observed SG for the last 15 years and more so since 2010 when I started writing here. I cannot recall a single article or video from SG that I would consider to be great journalism. None, NOTHING! Like all the other names mentioned above, SG too has built his career grovelling at the feet of Sonia and Congress. And in the decade of the UPA, grovelling was a very rewarding profession. For a decade or so SG has also been a vendor to NDTV with some shows. Naturally, the corrupt usually operate in a gang. Come elections, SG hunts as part of a threesome with Prannoy Roy and Dorab Sopariwala. They are supposed to be “election experts” but have had problems getting anything right for many years. This is quite a private club that survives on each other:

Apart from being a footsie for that spy group Stratfor which he never discloses in public, SG is also a domestic maid and “Nurse” for the Congress. The other doormat and housemaid of Congress, Kumar Ketkar, who paraded as a journo and is now an RS member, stated the party wouldn’t have lost 2014 so badly had they regularly read SG’s columns. This is what Ketkar stated in 2015 after the Congress thrashing:

“If the Congress high command had read Shekhar Gupta's National Interest column regularly, the party would not have suffered the disaster it has. But either because of smugness or arrogance, complacence or callousness, the party leadership, at all levels, thought that it does not require any analysis or advice…  Did the Congress high command, or at least Rahul and flamboyant leaders like Kapil Sibal or Jairam Ramesh or Digvijaya Singh read this column seven years ago? If they did, how did they react? Did they even introspect or just choose to reject the futuristic projection made by Shekhar Gupta?”

Times have changed. SG is no more a nurse to Sonia-Congress alone. He is now called Lutyens “Dalal” or “Wheeler Dealer” by a variety of politicians. SG is now a nurse for the Congress and also for the Mahathugbandhan. Of course, the nurse has diversified and is also a chaperone for SC judges. He looks after their pressers, breakfasts, their laundry and house-keeping:

Since 2014, SG had exited IE, then joined India Today and quit that Tabela too. He founded “The Print” along with Barkha. But it seems the rivalry between two Congress-housemaids was a difficult relationship. So, Barkha quit and went to build a glass-ceiling for Hillary Clinton. But that 80000 Sq ft of glass ceiling fell on Barkha’s head and she is now doing something for Kapil Sibal called Combine-Harvester. Congress didn’t listen to SG in the years leading up to LS2014 so I hope they listen to his latest Dalal-effort in how to “Cut the clutter”, unite the ThugBandhan and challenge Modi. He released a video on how to do this (Video: 1 min excerpt):

That is just a brief clip from his entire 17-minute video on how the Opposition should unite. SG proposes various aphrodisiacs for the union. Love-lessons on give and take between husbands and wives. And in his Dalali way he calls them stupid, lazy, arrogant and urges them to shun their enmity and ego. You can find the full video in his tweet should you be so desperate to view it:
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Shekhar Gupta @ShekharGupta
Why's the opposition not able to unite, despite knowing that it's the only way to defeat Modi /BJP....
Understanding their arrogance, laziness, ego or stupidity, despite being devastated in 2014#CutTheClutter with me. Episode 132 youtu.be/aehHN1DhPus
11.26 PM - Apr 2, 2019
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SG laments that the MahaMilavat is unable to get past their petty differences and present a united challenge to PM Modi. Very sound advice I would say. He further narrates that each party in the Milavat wants to leverage the other. SG stunningly states that Modi won LS2014 only because of a divided Opposition. That implies that Modi had nothing to do with the 2014 win and there was no Modi-wave and it’s because the Opposition was stupidly disunited and allowed Modi and BJP to win. But SG does confirm that the Left is dead and it would be surprising if they got to double digits in LS2019.

The best assertion that SG makes out of his motherly love for Pappu, who has run off to Wayanad, is that Modi had also contested from two seats in 2014 so nothing wrong if Pappu also contests from two seats. This is a convenient fallacy that all Congress housemaids are peddling. That’s why I keep saying journos are not very bright people but often extreme morons. Modi was not only sure of winning from Vadodara, he could have won from anywhere in Gujarat – Ahmedabad, Mehsana, Rajkot and even Miyagam Karjan. There was no question of Modi losing anywhere in Gujarat. Modi chose Varanasi as the second seat not out of fear, like Pappu does, but to make a symbolic statement of becoming the PM from UP and Varanasi being a very iconic place for Hindus. Besides that, Modi contesting from Varanasi was also to energise the whole state of UP in favour of BJP which he managed – BJP scored 73 out of 80 seats in the state. Dear Dalal – your business is deception – not self-deception.

I am not sure the sociopath RG is going to energise the Congress in the South – Wayanad is a sheer, last desperate move to merely SURVIVE. SG calls the Milavat “Stupid”. But he is as stupid as they are in his analysis. He talks about all their problems, their situation in life, their status as parties, their relations with other parties, their marital differences… blah, blah… BUT, he forgets one important thing that now matters in politics as much as it matters in your job or anyone’s job and that is:

PERFORMANCE

But then performance doesn’t matter in media. Bootlicking and slavery does! SG totally ignores the fact that Modi is not merely popular for his grey hair, beard or oratory. Modi has a huge balance of PERFORMANCE in the shortest period of time on multiple fronts. I can make a long list and in a previous post I had compressed the five-year performance of Modi into a 5-minute montage. In the case of power reaching 96% of households targeted, SG grandly calls it a “failure” for Modi. Such is his pathetic life, that he refuses to acknowledge it’s a grand success and that when the target date of March 2019 had not yet been reached. Imagine, your exam is in March 2019 but the “University of Dalal” sends you a marksheet in January 2019 stating you have failed with 96% marks:
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Shekhar Gupta @ShekharGupta
1 million homes still in dark as Narendra Modi” fails to achieve power goal”...
Rajesh Kumar Singh and Anindya Upadhyay @anindya_u report:
12:17 AM - 1 Jan 2019

1 million homes still in dark as Narendra Modi fails to achieve power goal
The Modi government set out to electrify nearly 40 million homes in 2017, a target that has been shrinking along the way.
theprint.in
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Not one single member of the Milavat is talking about their own performance and nor is SG or any other journalist. This is where they miserably FAIL. Whether as Opposition in the Parliament or outside it – the Congis have only rioted, flown paper-planes and screamed lie after lie that has exposed them. Same goes for others like Mamata or Chandrababu or the Family outfits from the South. Take Kumaraswamy and Congress in Karnataka. Since they got married, they have nothing to show for performance – NOTHING. All that HDK does all day is fight with Congress, cry and cry some more. Where is their performance? And SG thinks Modi is a huge challenge merely because Opposition is not united. The Dalal doesn’t think beyond his brokerage-seeking-brain. The SG effect is now visible in other “Chota Dalals” like Saba Naqvi, Vinod Sharma that are desperate to see a marriage between RG and Kejriwal. I love that these foster parents of idiotic politicians are so concerned about their children:

PM Modi has dramatically altered the measurables for a political party and the govt. He has offered corruption-free leadership, discipline and a work and character ethic that has never been seen in the past in any govt in India. The Opposition is a corrupt gang of dynasts, nepotists, flame-throwers, circus acrobats and snake-charmers. They are constantly busy on which friend or relative to enrich or which scam to execute while Modi has been busy investing in performance. It’s a lesson for not only other political parties but moronic journos like Shekhar Gupta – INVEST IN PERFORMANCE. What does SG do in The Print? He gets some school-girls to write crap with no sense or logic and keeps peddling that as “others’ opinions” and shoots from their shoulders. The worst indictment of SG as a Dalal comes from his being named in the Agusta chopper scam. He is still trying Surf excel to wash off this stain:
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Sudhir Chaudhary @sudhirchaudhary
For the kind perusal of those who want to know which journalists have been named in the #AugustaWestlandScam .Here is an excerpt of the chargesheet filed by ED. Shared in public interest.
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12:14 PM - 4 Apr 2019
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SG whines for the demise of Jet Airways. But he hasn’t written one article on why Jet went downhill.  Bad decisions, political tinkering and consistent financial indiscipline. SG doesn’t acknowledge Jet’s lack of financial PERFORMANCE. Jet is a business and may return in some avatar again. What about the credibility of MSM and his own? SG has peddled fake news like Smriti Irani wants to track and spy on media. SG even peddled the most moronic claim that I&B minister Rathore had “secretly” floated a public tender to spy on media. What kind of idiot would think someone would float a public tender “secretly” for a spy operation? ONLY Dalal SG!

Then, SG peddled yet another fake news about polio-vaccines being in severe shortage. A man with no character, no ethics, no principles sermonises everyone else. SG watched like a rodent peeping from a slightly open manhole when Smita Prakash was called a “pliable journalist” for her interview with PM Modi. One should watch the suck-up, foot-licking interview SG did with Sonia sometime in 2004. You can be forgiven for thinking Sonia was playing with her pet dog.

The final nail on SG’s bald head has now come in the form of Sadhvi Pragya being nominated as a candidate from Bhopal against Hindu-hater Digvijaya Singh. SG is simply too stupefied and stunned to respond to this move by BJP. He knows his darling Congress candidate has been FOXED. SG put up a meek article, again through one of his school-girl writers, on the charge-sheet against the Sadhvi but nothing that isn’t already known for ages from the concocted cases. The court has clearly stated the charge-sheet did not make out a prima facie case.