Last week, Uttar Pradesh got a new CM. Also last week, the government rammed the Finance Bill in the Parliament, with scores of amendments that even MPs were kept in the dark about. You can be forgiven for thinking that the former was the only thing that happened in the country.

We saw stories about what the newly-appointed CM ate for breakfast and how fond he is of the cows in his Gorakhpur Gaushala. What we certainly did not see were stories about his criminal record and how he stoked communal tensions in the state whenever elections were around the corner. Also missing was how the CM's pet anti-Romeo squads have been running riot on the streets. On Sunday, videos of these vigilante goon squads looting citizens surfaced. None of the so-called national media outlets featured this story.