00:00Every regime has tried to manage the media at some stage or the other.
00:04Indira Gandhi put any dissenting voices in jail.
00:07Rajiv Gandhi brought the defamation bill, which would give the government powers over
00:12deciding what was defamatory and withdraw content.
00:16Pramod Mahajan used to try and manage the media when Atal Bihari Bajpai was in power.
00:23There was someone called C.M. Ebrahim, who was a Jamta Dal leader.
00:27He used to try and manage the media when Deva Gowda was in power for a short while.
00:31People had written off Chandrababu Naidu.
00:33They believed Jagan was coming back, welfare schemes were in place.
00:36He benefited from the fact that Jaganmohan arrested him.
00:40Can Chandrababu Naidu take Andhra forward? Yes, I think he can.
00:43Andhra is not an easy state to manage at the moment.
00:46Aman Kalyan has already shown himself to be a very astute politician in the kind of switches he has made.
00:52If I recall right, five years ago he was with the CPM.
00:56Extreme left to extreme right.
00:59So he's made his ideological high jump or long jump, whatever you want to call it.
01:04The BJP is always on the lookout for leaders from the south who they can align with.
01:09One of the problem areas in our political system is that this grand old party called the Indian National Congress
01:15has not fully adjusted to the times of this hyper-competitive election.
01:19They still want to play elections the old way.
01:21Mera aadmi, uska aadmi, I'll bring him down, I'll protect this guy.
01:26You've got to run politics on merit, not on all your networks.
01:30You're right, there are nine chief ministers at one count a couple of years ago who were ex-Congressmen.
01:35So obviously when you leave the Congress you see to flourish.
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