Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have lunch with the media on November 28 at the BJP headquarters at 11 Ashoka Road. The event is rare for two reasons:

1. PM Modi has restricted interactions with the Indian media
2. The event organised by BJP president Amit Shah is the first meeting with the press after the Bihar debacle.


At least 850 to 900 senior journalist from both TV and print have been invited. Modi before leaves for Paris thereafter.


Ever since the BJP government assumed power in 2014, private news outlets have been unhappy with the way Modi has sidelined independent media houses from governance by restricting exposure only to state-owned media organisations.

Instead of letting the entire media sector participate in official events, as was the norm previously, the government has chosen public broadcaster Prasar Bharti-owned All India Radio and Doordarshan News to carry out Modi's messages and transcripts of the events attended by the PM and his government.


Expect full attendance at this rare meeting with the PM. On the menu, we hear, is humble pie.