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| Father of City cries over ‘interview’ | | | Early Times Report
Jammu | Sept 15
In a bizarre incident, a newspaper ‘interview’ created ripples in the political circles with top brass of the Bhartiya Janta Party and the Congress together gunning for the City Mayor Kavinder Gupta who says that the words published by the newspaper were never even in his imagination.
“Father of the City”, as the Mayor is called, Kavinder Gupta just stopped short of crying when he threatened to sue local English Daily State Times which he alleged damaged his public and political reputation by a cooked up interview. At a hurriedly called press conference at his official chambers in the JMC Complex here today, the Mayor fired choicest of salvoes against the said newspaper and accused it of settling personal scores in the garb of Press.
An interview carried by the daily State Times quoted Kavinder as saying that he is only clean and credible leader in BJP and all his colleagues are outdated people fractured images. Without naming insinuations were clearly drawn against senior BJP leaders and their families were too dragged into the circle of allegations. The interview also quoted Kavinder as accusing various unnamed Congress leaders of indulging into corrupt practices.
After reading the interview and under attack from his party leaders as well as from the opposition, a red faced Mayor today clarified that not even a single word was said by him the way newspaper has quoted him. He accused the newspaper owner of settling his “personal scores with some people” by putting words of his imagination into mouths of others.
Narrating the whole incident and showing the copy of said newspaper, the Mayor recalled that the State Times reporter had visited him a couple of days back and sought an inter view about the development activities of Jammu Municipal Corporation. He said the information about the development issued he shared with the reporters did not appear in the newspaper instead what he read the next morning was far from what he had told the reporter. |
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