Author: Press Trust of India
Publication: IBNLive.com
Date: December 3, 2014
URL: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/pm-modi-critical-of-media-interviews-where-aim-is-to-get-predecided-answers/516185-3.html

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Tuesday critical of media interviews where questions are asked with the apparent aim of getting answers that is sometimes "pre-decided".

"In interviews, this is our experience. We have to reply at every roundabout and nook and corner. In most of the interviews, the person asking questions has already decided on the answers. He will not let you go unless you give him the answer he wants. Once you have given the answer they want, they lose interest in you," Modi said.

Earlier in the day, after facing the ire over the controversial remarks made by Minister of State Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Modi had asked the Bharatiya Janata Party MPs to abstain from addressing the nation.

At the BJP Parliamentary Board meeting held on Tuesday, Modi had asked his MPs to avoid making uncalled for statements. He also condemned the comments made by Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti.

While asserting her point and exhorting people to vote for the BJP, Niranjan had on Monday said that everyone including Muslims and Christians are sons of Ram. She also went ahead and added that those who do not believe in this ideology, do not belong to India.

She had to later apologise for her comments in Parliament after opposition parties trained guns against her for her controversial statement.