Artist Modi, and his art of addressing a press conference(Video)
Artist Modi, and his art of addressing a press conference
Ahmedabad, DeshGujarat, 8 January, 2009
Modi’s interesting interaction session with media persons on January 7th, 2009
When Keshubhai Patel was chief Minister of Gujarat, he used to address a press conference every Wednesday to brief the media about decisions taken at his cabinet meeting held on the same day. When Narendra Modi succeeded Keshubhai, he discontinued this. Modi even canceled a daily bus service from Ahmedabad to Gandhinagar run by state’s information department for journalists covering Gandhinagar beat. Since then, a press conference by the Chief Minister himself has become a rare event in Gujarat. Modi rarely calls a press conference in Ahmedabad or in Gandhinagar.
On January 7th, 2009 Modi addressed a press conference for Vibrant Gujarat Global Investor’s summit, 2009 in Ahmedabad’s GMDC building auditorium which is Modi’s favorite place for addressing his rare press conferences.
Narendra Modi is well known for his style of addressing the people. He is considered as a great orator and communicator. But his lesser known art of addressing a press conference is also equally well. This art is lesser known because everything that happens in a press conference never goes public. Only we the journalists interact with him inside a room, and most of us are never able to write everything that happened inside a press conference.
Formula of Narendra Modi’s art of handling a press conference is simple. He does not permit to go the press conference out of his control even for a moment. He keeps steering strictly in his hand. First he comes bit late, then he speaks(in which he praised media’s positive role on Vibrant Gujarat this time), then he declares floor open for questions, normal questions are answered normally, funny questions very funnily, serious questions seriously, difficult questions tactfully and in brief(mostly diverted towards central government), and when loose questions or time pass questions or stupidities start from the questioners side, he declares conference over with an invitation to join a lunch. He declared lunch in less than 8 minutes at January 7th press conference interaction session.
In this conference, when Modi was asked about how much investment would come, he said it’s Investors summit and not investment summit. When asked about global recession, he tactfully tried to prove that this recession would actually benefit Gujarat, when asked particularly about Gujarat’s recession hit textile, diamond and chemical industries, Modi involved central government into this, when asked how the people of Gujarat would be benefited by this summit, Modi apart from other things replied that advertisements in the newspapers would increase due to more investment, finally when a journalist connected Sonia Gandhi and UPA with Modi’s announcement about MOU with Italy for small scale sector in Vibrant Summit 2009, Modi asked a reporter ‘are you very hungry or what?’ and declared lunch.
No need to write more on this here because a video given above on January 7th, 2009 press conference at Ahmedabad speaks for itself. This is a good video if you want to learn an art of addressing a press conference from Mr. Narendra Modi himself. The video has only interaction round, it does not contain Modi’s speech that happened before.
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Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit 2009 links
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Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors’ Summit 2009 Ahmedabad(Video)
Artist Modi, and his art of addressing a press conference
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In Gujarat investors feel at home:Narendra Modi
Modi’s VGGIS 2009 invitation speech/interaction at Mumbai(Video)
January 9th, 2009 at 3:25 am
An interview of Modi published on January, 9th, 2009 about Vibrant Gujarat
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOI&BaseHref=TOIA/2009/01/09&PageLabel=2&EntityId=Ar00200&ViewMode=HTML&GZ=T
January 9th, 2009 at 3:28 am
Vibrant Gujarat official website
http://www.vibrantgujarat.com/
January 9th, 2009 at 3:29 am
An interview of Modi published on January, 9th, 2009 about Vibrant Gujarat
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOI&BaseHref=TOIA/2009/01/09&PageLabel=2&EntityId=Ar00200&ViewMode=HTML&GZ=T
January 9th, 2009 at 3:39 am
Video of Anil Ambani’s speech at Vibrant Gujarat 2007
http://deshgujarat.com/2007/01/14/anil-ambani-on-gujaratmodi-and-moremp3/
January 9th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
This is true that if you want progress you need to work hard don.t forget you must do hard work not talk and stireo type reading statment. Our Hon. chhote sardar working 16 to 18 hours a day only for Gujarat he is the supperman worry about our.s Gujarati.s people.His aim is now going true as Japan the country are partener for Vibrent Gujarat 2009. I like to asked Arjunbhai Modhavadia can you you explain how many CM of Gujarat in your party’s are working like hon.Modiji.Please stop properganda and joined to support vibrant Gujarat 2009 for atleast Gujarati’s people.Why why your party forget our famous festivals and our National festivals plus Sardar VallabhabhiPatel.Nehru family is not only for India not Soniyaben Gandhi, Finaly utho jago ane dheya ne prapt karo Swami Vivekandji amar raho.
Jay Jay Garvi Gujarat Vande Mataram.
January 11th, 2009 at 8:02 am
great Modi made great Gujarat as Anil Ambani saying..
“If Gujarat was a separate country, it would stand in a different league among some of world’s
Most flourishing and prosperous countries’
Gujaraties in whole world is nothing without Narendra Modi.
Who made this prosperous Gujarat, only one name comming in mind that is “Narendra Modi”, before no body knows Gujarat , before Gujarat was poor , before gujarat dont have value, before gujarat was nothng in Politics, before there was BJP in gujarat without Modi,
So if you want to know how Gujarat become this much good then must consider that Gujaratis never did anything to made Guajarat what it is now, but only MODIJI doing everything since he start to work for Gujarat.
Gujarat can not sevive without MODIJI !
I can say MODIJI should make a National Political PARTY To RULE over INDIA to make us able to PROVED OF BEING AN INDIAN.
January 15th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Yes ashis I agree with you Gujarati is good in business since many years.
About VANIYA, the Great Leader of India MAHATMA GANDHI had kicked out Britain from INDIA. Views of
Mohandas Gandhi about REAL and SUSTAINABLE development are far better then what we have in Gujarat now.
Here I mean to say MODIJI has changed GANDHI made Gujarat, Thus today’s’ Gujarat is different than ever before.
Today we have PROVED that is showoff and today people values showoff compare to REALITY. So we have success until we can Showoff MONEY/BUSINESS when MONEY/BUSINESS stops we feel Reality of Failure that GANDHI didn’t wanted.
Ambanies goes any place wherever they can make Easy money. Gujarat allowing them that easiness. They don’t want to improve life of Poor Gujju in Gujarat of India but they want to get benefit from Gujarat for their own.
Now, we PROVED what we believe, before GANDHI’s Gujarat has PROUD of what it was.
January 25th, 2009 at 6:34 am
My Indian Brothers & sisters whether you read this or not. Today I want to declare my true Love which I have for Indians since and for ever. My heart has always willingness to see The Real Progress of Indians and I am sure it is not hard as I already think a lot about it. Almighty Ishwar/Allah is witness I am saying to all of you about my Implicit Desired Willingness about that Progress. My brethren therefore support and listen to me and let me support and listen you. Almighty Lord of whole universe is witness thus witnessing inheritance to whole universe that I am saying the TRUTH AND ONLY THE TRUTH here so if anyone considering me FALSE in that case AUTOMATICALLY he/she supporting and listening to FALSE. Thus my Implicit Inspirations of progress of Indians is not included him/her for time being.
Anybody there who can convince me to listen and support each other?
February 24th, 2009 at 11:37 am
My Indian Brothers & sisters whether you read this or not. Today I want to declare my true Love which I have for Indians since and for ever. My heart has always willingness to see The Real Progress of Indians and I am sure it is not hard as I already think a lot about it. Almighty Ishwar/Allah is witness I am saying to all of you about my Implicit Desired Willingness about that Progress. My brethren therefore support and listen to me and let me support and listen you. Almighty Lord of whole universe is witness thus witnessing inheritance to whole universe that I am saying the TRUTH AND ONLY THE TRUTH here so if anyone considering me FALSE in that case AUTOMATICALLY he/she supporting and listening to FALSE. Thus my Implicit Inspirations of progress of Indians is not included him/her for time being.
Anybody there who can convince me to listen and support each other?
- by Barakatullah Khan