Yes personal IS political !!

 

This is the exact example for showing what I mean by "personal is political" with he increasing media intrusion.

Yesterday, since early afternoon Raj Thackeray was shown cutting his birthday cake, the cake in shape of letters 'bhaiiya'. All channels showed the clip and commented on his destructive body language. Some private joke became a public row. Though news channels claim that the birthday cake lost what the andolan had won the later public response tells us that people are more agitated with the news channels for showing the clip again and again and peeping into the private life unnecessarily and digging the issues to criticise Raj Thackeray.

This tells us that how important is safeguarding ones public image and especially for someone like Raj Thackeray who is so popular that he cannot afford to make such mistakes.

Thanks to his appeal that is public image is not soiled in the eyes of those who matter to him.

Really I was amazed to see hoe charisma worked wonders!!