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AHMEDABAD l SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 2021 l Pages 12 l 3.00 RNI NO. GUJENG/2019/16208 l Vol 2 l Issue No. 59 WELL-KNOWN BHAJAN SINGER EX-HIGH COURT JUDGE JUSTICE GK VYAS NARENDRA CHANCHAL PASSES AWAY APPOINTED CHAIRMAN OF RAJASTHAN P6 AT A DELHI HOSPITAL ON FRIDAY HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR, AHMEDABAD & LUCKNOW www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia I facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia CRUCIAL CWC MEETING Farmers reject BSF one of the ‘finest Centre’s offer to CONG DEMANDS JPC ON ‘Shocking pause agri laws insensitivity’ forces’, TMC’s allegation New Delhi: The elev- enth round of talks be- shown by tween the centre and ARNAB WHATSAPP CHAT ‘unfortunate’: CEC Arora farmers protesting the agriculture laws ended govt against Kolkata: Referring to Friday evening as the LEAK; PARTY PRESIDENT Trinamool Congress’ previous ten did - in a farmers, (TMC) allegation that stalemate - with farmer the Border Security leaders refusing to ac- TO BE ELECTED BY JUNE says Sonia Force (BSF) is coercing cept the centre’s latest voters to favour one proposal - to put the con- New Delhi: The Con- party, Chief Election troversial laws on hold gress Working Com- ‘REPORTS ON Commissioner Sunil for a year-and-a-half. mittee (CWC) met on HOW NATIONAL Arora on Friday said Furthermore, unlike Friday and passed res- SECURITY WAS the remark is ‘unfortu- earlier talks, no date olutions on three is- THOROUGHLY nate’. was set for the next sues of national impor- COMPROMISED Briefing the media, meeting, with Agricul- tance, including farm- DISTURBING’ Arora said, “It is unfor- CEC Sunil Arora speaks during a media conference on ture Minister Naren- ers’ protest, coronavi- tunate that a party West Bengal Assembly Election, in Kolkata on Friday. dra Singh Tomar tell- On the purported rus vaccine and What- made averments about ing farmers “the ball is WhatsApp sApp chat leaks of the BSF. I have asked for your court now”. conversations SETBACK FOR MAMATA AS journalist Arnab Gos- between Republic TV concrete instances. Tomar also said he was wami. The party also Editor-in-Chief Arnab They are (BSF) one of THIRD MINISTER QUITS GOVT “sad” because farmer announced to hold Goswami and former the finest forces in the leaders did not seem to polls for electing the country. There is no Kolkata: A West Bengal have “farmers’ welfare CEO of BARC Partho Minister Rajib Banerjee new Congress presi- File photo of Interim Congress President Sonia Gandhi discussing point in castigating any at the heart of (their) Dasgupta, she said today quit the govern- dent by June 2021. party matters with Rahul Gandhi and KC Venugopal. there have been “very force, ad nauseam.” talks”. ment citing a change Addressing a press disturbing” reports on “We had an in-depth in- “Talks remained in- of portfolio two years conference, the party’s how national security teraction with political conclusive as farmers’ It is abundantly clear that the was “thoroughly ago and broke down on Central Election Au- parties. Most had con- camera, saying: “I nev- welfare was not at the compromised”. Rajib Banerjee addressing thority headed by Mad- three laws were prepared in cerns about law and or- er thought a day would heart of talks from the husudan Mistry said der situation. They mediapersons in Kolkata. unions’ side. I am sad haste and Parliament was “Just a few days come when I would the CWC has passed a consciously denied an opportunity for back, Antony-ji had spoke of high voltage have to take such a Congress ahead of about it... We asked resolution on farmers’ said that leaking of electioneering which diffi cult step”. He is the elections. Banerjee did them to reconsider our protest, saying the par- examining in any meaningful details offi cial secrets of could precipitate into third minister to resign not respond to ques- proposal as it is in the ty would oppose the their implications and impacts. We reject military operations political violence and this month in the mid- tions on whether he interest of farmers and central government to them as they will destroy food security is treason. Yet, the threaten to vitiate the dle of an exodus from was headed to the BJP, the country,” Tomar take back the three new government’s silence electoral process,” he Chief Minister Mamata like dozens of TMC was quoted by news —Sonia Gandhi, Interim Congress President farm laws. is baffl ing. added. Banerjee’s Trinamool leaders before. agency ANI. Turn to P6 Turn to P6 Turn to P6 Fire at Serum Institute: Damage worth MILKY WAY! `1,000 cr, says CEO Adar Poonawalla Pune: A day after a ma- “It did not have any jor fire at the premises stock or production. It of Serum Institute of is a brand new facility. India (SII) killed five Installation of equip- people, ment was underway CEO Adar there, which is what Poona- perhaps led to the inci- walla said dent. What we have lost the blaze is future production,” had he said. caused The fire had fire en- Adar Poonawalla damage gulfed three upper worth more than Rs floors of a newly-con- 1,000 crore, affecting the structed six-storey Rotavirus and BCG vac- building inside one of cine manufacturing the campuses of Se- and storage unit. Poon- rum Institute of India, awalla, however, reiter- which is a key player ated that the fire did not in the global supplies hit the supply of Covid- Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray along with State Tourism Minister Aaditya Thackeray at the site. of vaccines against shiled — one of India’s the novel coronavirus. Covid-19 vaccines. Covishield supplies, it cial loss for us,” Poon- caught fire Thursday All five people who “Damage caused by has damaged the Rota- awala said at a press was a new structure, died in the fire were the fire is more than Rs virus and BCG vaccine conference. where additional prod- contractual welding Children walk on a snow-covered wooden bridge amid dense fog during a cold winter 1000 crore. Although manufacturing and According to Poon- uct building capacity and air-conditioning morning, in Srinagar on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI the fire will not affect storage. It’s a big finan- awala, the building that was being developed. workers. ‘BLOODY’ AFFAIR Teen battling thalassaemia tests HIV +ve after blood transfusion INFANT DIES AFTER POLIO JAB IN JUNAGADH members of the party to Father of the child has alleged the Collectorate on Fri- that his son was infected due to day to present his plight and seek justice for his the negligence of staffers at KT child. He alleged, “It is Children Government Hospital sheer negligence on part of the hospital that First India Bureau demanded stern action they transfused HIV against the negligence positive blood to my Rajkot: In a shocking of the hospital. son. Now, he has both incident, a 14-year- According to reports, thalassemia and HIV.” old boy suffering the boy has been regu- Speaking to First In- from thalassaemia larly receiving blood dia, Dr Gauravi Dhru- was allegedly given a transfusions at the hos- va, Professor and Head blood transfusion of pital since he was one of Pathology Depart- an HIV positive per- years old. As per stand- report had come back HIV positive. Shocked ment at the hospital son at the KT Chil- ard guidelines, he also negative but, when he to see his son’s reports, said, “The blood trans- dren Government undergoes HIV testing was taken for a blood the teen’s father sought fused to each and every Hospital in the city. to rule it out. transfusion on January the help of Rajkot Con- patient is 100% safe. The teen’s father has In May 2020, his HIV The discovery was made after the teen’s HIV test report came back positive. 4 this year, he tested gress. He accompanied Turn to P6 NEWS www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia AHMEDABAD | SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 2021 02 STATE TO SET UP EIGHT NEW GIDC ESTATES India’s biggest multi-model logistics park at Virochan Nagar near auto hub Sanand; MoU signed between Guj govt and Adani First India Bureau small, and medium en- will benefit from this. Sanand-2, Vapi and Lo- terprises, Rupani said, “These new estates dhika as “model es- Gandhinagar: In an “We want to develop an will provide Rs1,223 tates” with all the basic important announce- economic circle with an crore in capital invest- and high-tech facilities. ment for the state’s in- aim to provide opportu- ment and 20,000 new He added that the dustrial sector, Chief nities to several people jobs in the future,” a state’s industrial es- Minister Vijay Rupani through a large number confidant Rupani also tates now have infra- digitally allotted 264 of MSME units.” said. structure built on a plots of GIDC at Charup The CM announced In another important “plug-and-play” basis. of Patan District the setting up of new announcement, the CM Further, MK Das Ad- through computerized industrial estates said that the govern- ditional Chief Secre- draw. across 987 hectares in ment has decided to set tary to the CM and In- On Friday, Rupani eight districts of the up multi-storey sheds dustries and Mines, said, “Gujarat is ready state. Of these, the Mor- in the nine existing in- Government of Guja- to take the lead in devel- bi Model estate will be dustrial estates of the rat, and Karan Adani, oping the industrial formed in an area of 500 state to boost MSMEs.
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    International Journal of Communication 11(2017), 4197–4218 1932–8036/20170005 Innuendo as Outreach: @narendramodi and the Use of Political Irony on Twitter JOYOJEET PAL PRIYANK CHANDRA PADMA CHIRUMAMILLA VAISHNAV KAMESWARAN ANDRE GONAWELA UDIT THAWANI PRITIKA DASGUPTA University of Michigan, USA Our analysis of tweets from @narendramodi demonstrates how the Indian prime minister used political irony, enacted through sarcasm and wordplay, to refashion his political style and practice into a more broadly appealing populist ethic. We deconstruct confrontational Twitter messages laced with innuendo to explore the use of language as a means of political self-representation. Modi’s use of irony provides a form of political spectacle and demonstrably resonates on social media, as quantified by the high retweeting of his sarcastically worded messages. We identify three rhetorical strategies in these tweets: (1) appeals to the base through the use of popular idiom, (2) creation of a shared cognitive environment to allow followers in on inside jokes and a means of affiliating with the leader, and (3) the performance of righteousness in underlining the leader’s use of wit and restraint. We argue that the use of political irony in these tweets must be seen as part of a longer-term performative effort to recast Modi’s political image from a regional strongman into a sophisticated communicator. Keywords: Twitter, India, Narendra Modi, sarcasm, irony, populism Narendra Modi has more than 35 million followers on Twitter and 43 million likes on Facebook, a combined tally greater than that of any other elected leader in the world.1 He has more direct social media Joyojeet Pal: [email protected] Priyank Chandra: [email protected] Padma Chirumamilla: [email protected] Vaishnav Kameswaran: [email protected] Andre Gonawela: [email protected] Udit Thawani: [email protected] Pritika Dasgupta: [email protected] Date submitted: 2016–12–05 Copyright © 2017 (Joyojeet Pal, Priyank Chandra, Padma Chirumamilla, Vaishnav Kameswaran, Andre Gonawela, and Pritika Dasgupta).