Hyderabad, April 10 -- May sound strange nevertheless true.

Against the general perception the fact is that the opposition's point of view is now getting more media attention than during the parliamentary election held in 1977 just after the relaxation of Emergency and during the Shining India days of Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2004.

In contrast, in the 1989 and 2014 elections the print and electronic media respectively played a pivotal role in bringingdown the then government-thanks to the freedom they enjoyed. Had they not forcefully raised the Bofors kick-up issue against the Rajiv Gandhi government and not highlighted India Against Corruption campaign against Manmohan Singh rule perhaps it would not havebeen possible for V P Singh and ...