Ranvir Sena and Bihar's newspapers

Analysis of news Published in Bihar media regarding the event organized on the 3rd death anniversary of Ranveer Sena founder Barmeshwar Nath Singh (Brahmeshwar Singh) alias Mukhiya on 1st June 2015 in Patna. A large number of politicians belonging to Brahmeshwar Mukhiya caste participate in the function organized by his son Indrabhushan Singh in Patna on 1 June, his third death anniversary. It is the norm today that if politicians participate in a function, it is considered newsworthy. So, it was natural that it got coverage in the media. But the Bihar media did not limit themselves to covering the event. They saw the event as another opportunity to glorify Mukhiya. Barring Dainik Jagran, all Hindi newspapers described it as a function to mark the “martyrdom day”. Even if the organizers of the programme had described the function in this manner, should the newspapers have referred to the murderer of hundreds of poor people as a martyr? Shouldn’t they have described it merely as a “function/event to mark three years of Mukhiya’s murder”? This difference in nomenclature gives ample indication about where the sympathies of all those involved in the writing of news stories lie.