PM Modi’s Press Conference or Mann Ki Baat? Twitter Left Wondering

Twitter was left wondering whose press conference was it anyway – Amit Shah’s or PM Modi’s?

Narendra Modi addressed his first press conference – or did he?

In his first face-to-face with the media, the prime minister on Friday, 17 May, addressed the media – and left it at that.

Here is a time lapse video of Q&A session of PM Modi's first Press Conference in 5 years. He sat there for 17 minutes, without answering a single question! 😂

Omg! He really cannot answer without being tutored in writing. 🤭😭🤣 pic.twitter.com/GB92NAc01B

— Gaurav Pandhi गौरव पांधी (@GauravPandhi) May 17, 2019

Modiji got confused between press conference and mann ki baat.

— Pratik Sinha (@free_thinker) May 17, 2019

This was the Finale episode of Shri @narendramodi ji’s #MannKiBaat

What sort of Press Conference was it when he didn’t answer any questions? https://t.co/PDALixML4d

— Radhika Khera (@Radhika_Khera) May 17, 2019

So basically Vivek Oberoi playing fancy dress as Prime Minister Modi has STILL answered more questions than Prime Minister Modi playing fancy dress as a man attending a press conference to answer questions?

— Doctor Roshan R (@pythoroshan) May 17, 2019

‘Not Press Conference, But Press Appearance’

The prime minister did not take a single question from the media in the 40-minute press conference, and instead left Amit Shah to answer all of them.

Twitter was left wondering whose press conference was it anyway!

Seeing it for the first time a Prime Minister sitting in front of over a hundred journalists, but not take a single question from journalists? Not “press conference,” this is what we call a “press appearence”! pic.twitter.com/LdDDphlp1s

— Vinod K. Jose (@vinodjose) May 17, 2019

Today, a press conference became a press appearance!😌😄😄

— Citizen/नागरिक/Dost Rajdeep (@sardesairajdeep) May 17, 2019

Ok so PM @narendramodi had a monologue, and National #BJP prez @AmitShah held a Pressconference.

— Deepal.‏‎‎Trivedi (@DeepalTrevedie) May 17, 2019

The nation is also delighted. And it surely isn't a press conference. pic.twitter.com/yYb0fmfa30

— Komal Bhalla (@kbhalla7) May 17, 2019

First press conference in 5 years but did not answer a single question!

Kya hua @narendramodi ji?

Yeh kis type ka press conference tha?

— Srinivas B V (@srinivasiyc) May 17, 2019

‘The Real Press Conference’

Congress President Rahul Gandhi, too, briefed the media at the same time when the prime minister’s press conference was underway.

Many Twitter users called Gandhi’s briefing the “real press conference” as he directly took questions from the media.

Monologue vs real press conference pic.twitter.com/9729M3tWyQ

— Amitabh Dubey (@dubeyamitabh) May 17, 2019

Split screen across most news channels. Unimaginable in 2014 pic.twitter.com/8yQNwgWK5z

— Harinder Baweja (@shammybaweja) May 17, 2019

TV channels in dilemma, which press conference to show. Screen is splited but audio can't be. 😆 BJP press conference is on. #LokSabhaElections2019 pic.twitter.com/ACR9DF59gg

— Sudip 🇮🇳 (@iam_Sudip) May 17, 2019