Given the political climate of India in BJP’s last tenure, many of the national news outlets resorted to self-censorship, yet many dared to stick with the ideal. Now, when the BJP’s rule spilled over on May 23 2019, for a consecutive term, the paper attempted to analyze how Indian print media covered the first news of the Party’s new period, mainly focusing on the frames used and how much different was it from the international media. The research study used content analysis method to evaluavate the news articles and results from the content analysis reveal that majority 90 percent of the National and international print media depicted PM Modi as powerful leader of India and portrayed his image in positive manner, despite few instances when one or two news articles saw and presented him in negative manner. The coverage was in favour of Modi led BJP Apart from the national selected sample even international media acknowledged his victory.
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