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Don't flip-flop like Kejriwal, Premji tells
media
Friday November 02, 2012 09:55:53 PM,
IANS
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Bangalore: Indian IT czar and Wipro Ltd chairman Azim Premji Friday had a word of
advice for the media - don't flip-flop like social activist Arvind
Kejriwal of India Against Corruption (IAC).
"I think the media also, like Kejriwal, flips from topic to topic
all the time. Media also has a great role to play. It (media)
should have consistency in following through whatever it digs up,"
Premji told reporters here on the margins of a conference on the
financial performance of the IT bellwether for the second quarter
(July-Sept) of this fiscal (2012-13).
Asserting that the media could contribute a lot towards the
reformation of the country, Premji said it should address the
issues seriously by remaining focused on them till they were
resolved.
"I have been saying consistently that the media should be serious
in taking issues to their logical conclusion, and not leave them
half-way," Premji said.
Declining to comment on crony capitalism, which the IAC has raised
in connection with the alleged favours the government had shown in
the natural gas project of the Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance
Industries Ltd, Premji said things were no better and no worse
than they have been in the past two years.
Asked if the government image had taken a beating with the recent
expose on the Congress president's son-in-law Robert Vadra's land
dealings and external affairs minister Salman Khurshid's alleged
misappropriation of state funds through his non-government
organisation, Premji declined to comment, saying he did not know.
"I don't know if the government's image is taking a beating, but
its image is certainly not getting elevated either," Premji
quipped.
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