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Article: Sting is king ; In the season of sting operations, all it takes is a CD for every political party to claim its own version of the truth. However, the grainy images and double roles by several players show that while much has been uncovered the truth is still elusive.
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- India Today
- Article date:
- August 18, 2008
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National politics, it seems, is now divided between those who did
a sting and those who didn't. It was spurted by a private television
channel that cited several loose ends to refuse to air a sting on
the cashfor-vote scam it co-produced with the BJP.
During the week, like characters in search of an author, everyone
who feted and featured in the original CD-Parliament members, sundry
cronies, the accusers, the accused-spilled on to other sting CDs.
Once upon a time, CDs featured songs set to popular tunes
eulogising their own and running down opponents. Now the CDs mostly
contain footage shot on hidden camera showing the opponent naked.
The nation sat rivetted as the trailer to the mother ...