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After their first interaction in 1990, senior journalist Rajdeep Sardesai would get along well with Gujarat BJP leader Narendra Modi for many years. But Modi’s relationship with Rajdeep or the media was not to remain the same.

“2002 was a turning point, and he [Modi] believes to this day that the media was hostile to him…that sense of media being unfair continued right throughout the decade when he was in power in Gujarat,” says Rajdeep, now a consulting editor at India Today, while speaking to Manisha Pande about his new book 2024: The Election That Surprised India.

Rajdeep says that the Karan Thapar interview in 2007 also affected Modi’s attitude towards the media. “While, you could argue that there is an element of contempt or disdain for the media, it is also a strategic move by Modi – that I will not allow any interviewer to embarrass me publicly ever again,” says the journalist who was Thapar’s editor at the time.

Explaining why India Today agreed to publish interviews that had been edited by the PM’s office, he says, “Your fear is [if] you say no, your competitor will say ‘okay, I will do it’.”

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