Opposition leaders of 18 parties have decided to boycott President s address in solidarity with farmers protesting at Delhi’s borders against the three farm laws.
BJPâs strategy for Arnab Goswami âWhatsApp scandalâ â keep leaders quiet, focus on Budget
BJP leaders defended Arnab Goswami when he was arrested last year, but his image & relationship with ruling dispensation seems irreparably damaged this time. Text Size:
New Delhi:Â The controversy overÂ
Republic TVÂ Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswamiâs leaked WhatsApp chats has caused some consternation in the BJP, which has now instructed its spokespersons and other leaders not to speak publicly on the issue.
Government and ruling party figures have largely stayed silent on this controversy, compared to how they had openly defended Arnab Goswami after he was arrested by the Mumbai Police last year.
Symbols of the rot
Time journalists called out the corruption unearthed by the TRP scam
Details of the WhatsApp chats between former CEO of the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) Partho Dasgupta and Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami that the Mumbai police have filed along with a 3,400-page supplementary chargesheet in the scam to rig TRPs for manipulation of advertising are symbolic of the rot that is primetime television news. The salacious parts involve rival anchors who are variously called “utter fool”, “ass”, “top-to-bottom fake”, etc. But the more serious bits display the utter absence of integrity, a total contrast between what these individuals actually think and what they peddle as news and opinion that influences the people. In one chat, they are shown to use colourful descriptions about the bad state of the economy and how the late Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is the “biggest failure”. But in an after-primetime show, however, this celebr
Modi heading towards legal, political quagmire over military leak
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January 25, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Narendra Modi regime is heading towards legal and political quagmire with Indian opposition leaders likely to seek joint parliamentary probe and once his close aides pressuring him to resign over leak of military secrets to a TV anchor. Indian Congress President Sonia Gandhi said that the center’s silence on the purported WhatsApp chats of Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami about the Balakot airstrike was deafening. “There have been very disturbing reports on how national security has been so thoroughly compromised,” Gandhi said, according to Indian news agency Press Trust of India.
Arnab Goswami s Republic TV was one of the main beneficiaries of the television ratings point (TRP) scam, which was unearthed by the Mumbai Police last year.