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MUMBAI:
TIMES NOW, India's No 1 English News Television Channel is packing
in all the action this week in the special preview of the forthcoming
episode of Lead India, an initiative of The Times of India to identify
new leaders for a new India.
Viewers
can catch the special preview on TIMES NOW, the news partner for
the Lead India campaign. The previews will run on news bulletins
all day on Friday and Saturday before the episode airs on Star One
at 8 pm on Saturday 26 January 08.
What
happens when you have to be the Finance Minister or the Home Minister
for the day and are grilled with some of the toughest questions
while an entire nation watches you? A complete exhilarating experience!!!
This episode will give contestant a larger-than-life view of a Parliament
session with the theme 'Mission Zero Hour'. The Parliamentary session
will have guests like Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Senior Congress Leader
and Ravi Shankar Prasad, who has been the spokesperson for the BJP
twice before. The three contestants will battle it out by each playing
the role of a Minister for the day and go through a grueling round
of questions that will be put forth by the judges and the two 'Opposition
Party Leaders' and conducted by 'Speaker' Anupam Kher.
A vox-pop
of viewer's opinion will be conducted of who amongst the Lead India
contestants is capable of being the Leader. While RK Mishra will
play an External Affairs Minister and Devang Nanvati the Finance
Minister, Sanjiv Kaura will don the role of the Home Minister in
this episode.
The
discussions range from issues like the need to have trade partnerships
with China to introducing a uniform and modern Police Act, the contestants
will feel the heat. The contestants will argue and fight it out
in true Parliament spirit. The feel of the episode brings the actual
parliamentary sessions to life for the viewers.
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