NEW DELHI — For the first time since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in May 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a press conference in New Delhi on Friday. For almost an hour, Modi sat next to Shah, but he did not take any questions from reporters present at the press conference. But in the afternoon today, this journalist said, a party member told some reporters that Modi would also attend Shah’s press conference. Another journalist, who was present at the press conference, told HuffPost India, “There were SPG personnel around checking journalists before entering the party office building. The PM has been criticized for not taking spontaneous and harder questions at a press conference.

Source: Huffington Post May 17, 2019 12:36 UTC