<p class="title">Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday hit out at “compulsive contrarians” for questioning air strikes at Jaish-e-Mohammad terror camp in Pakistan, claiming that this was the precise reason why Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose to reach out to the people directly.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Jaitley was speaking at a function to launch a book 'Mann ki Baat – A Social Revolution on Radio' here based on the Prime Minister's monthly radio talk.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Referring to the February 26 air-strikes on Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Jaitley said “some people whom I call compulsive contrarians discovered a new Balakote without even checking that, that particular Balakote is not across the LOC but in our own Poonch.”</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said those in public life have to use alternative modes to communicate directly with people, as television news channels were increasingly resorting to “agenda setting” instead of reporting.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Jaitley recalled that he was confronted with a similar situation when Modi was seeking re-election as chief minister of Gujarat in 2002 which he was overseeing as a BJP leader.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“At the time the local media and national media was not exactly a friend of his (Modi's). It was very aggressive against him. Even at that time, the strategy was that when there is agenda-setting instead of reporting, you cannot communicate with people through this medium,” he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Jaitley said that through 'Mann Ki Baat' programme, Modi used the medium of radio for governmental communication in order to establish direct communication with people by identifying its wide reach.</p>
<p class="title">Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday hit out at “compulsive contrarians” for questioning air strikes at Jaish-e-Mohammad terror camp in Pakistan, claiming that this was the precise reason why Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose to reach out to the people directly.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Jaitley was speaking at a function to launch a book 'Mann ki Baat – A Social Revolution on Radio' here based on the Prime Minister's monthly radio talk.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Referring to the February 26 air-strikes on Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Jaitley said “some people whom I call compulsive contrarians discovered a new Balakote without even checking that, that particular Balakote is not across the LOC but in our own Poonch.”</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said those in public life have to use alternative modes to communicate directly with people, as television news channels were increasingly resorting to “agenda setting” instead of reporting.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Jaitley recalled that he was confronted with a similar situation when Modi was seeking re-election as chief minister of Gujarat in 2002 which he was overseeing as a BJP leader.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“At the time the local media and national media was not exactly a friend of his (Modi's). It was very aggressive against him. Even at that time, the strategy was that when there is agenda-setting instead of reporting, you cannot communicate with people through this medium,” he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Jaitley said that through 'Mann Ki Baat' programme, Modi used the medium of radio for governmental communication in order to establish direct communication with people by identifying its wide reach.</p>
