BJP's Problem With Amazon Chief Jeff Bezos? Journalism.  - IAMC
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BJP’s Problem With Amazon Chief Jeff Bezos? Journalism. 

The Narendra Modi government and ruling party BJP seem to be snubbing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in not-so-subtle ways during his India visit.… Union commerce minister Piyush Goyal reacted to this, saying Amazon hadn’t done India any big favours by announcing the new investment, indicating tensions with the US online retail giant.…

Chauthaiwala, whose Twitter bio says he’s in-charge of BJP’s foreign affairs department, later told Times of India, “I am not against Amazon. In fact, I am a regular customer of Amazon. But I am certainly against the one-sided, biased, agenda-driven anti-Modi editorial position of Washington Post,” he said. Chauthaiwala told the daily he wanted to highlight the huge chasm between Bezos’s praise for India and the dark portrayal of the country on the pages of Washington Post.

Washington Post, which Bezos owns, has given space to articles and opinion pieces that have sharply criticised the Modi-led central government. In the past few months, the newspaper has published articles by Rana Ayyub which have lambasted the government’s Citizenship Amendment Act and the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, and their dangerous consequences.…

https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/jeff-bezos-washington-post-modi-bjp-snub_in_5e212744c5b632117610fc26

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