DDA'S DREAM OF CABLE CAR TO NIGHTMARE OF BIODIVERSITY PARK

It's said that a person is known by the company she or he keeps.

- SIDHARTH MISHRA

It could be stretched further to say that the person also gets influenced by the company she or he is in. This adage most appropriately suits Delhi's present Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena.

While Saxena did wonderfully well to put brakes on many a fake policy propaganda by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government, first led by Arvind Kejriwal and now Atishi, he has however in the process of his interactions also got, to put it very mildly, publicity savvy. Now let's explain for the convenience of readers what's being publicity savvy. It could mean about someone who is able to use media to attract attention or manipulate it to his or her advantage.

While Saxena could be safely said to be not manipulating the media as his present chief minister and her predecessor have done, but he certainly got into the act of seeking attention from media. Saxena's predecessors, mostly hard-boiled bureaucrats, kept a distance from media and even in the areas under their direct control they let the head of the department do the talking, be it the Delhi Police or the Delhi Development Authority (DDA).