Modi’s Own Invisible Man: Hiren Joshi’s Rise and Retreat https://thewire.in/politics/hiren-joshi-narendra-modi-pmo In Modi’s era, the power over information has tightened into a centralised machinery where messages are crafted, curated and released with calculated precision. At the heart of this ecosystem stands Joshi, the prime minister’s discreet yet formidable media aide.
Many journalists privately claim that he keeps dossiers on Modi’s critics, tracking their posts, their patterns, even the private corners of their lives. It is also an open secret that Joshi commands the loyalty of BJP’s IT Cell, a digital ‘troll army’ known to influence trends, drown dissent and smother inconvenient facts under waves of coordinated outrage.