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TRP Scam: Stunning chats reveal how former BARC chief Partho Dasgupta allegedly wanted to unleash troll army against Times Now. TRP Scam
New Delhi: In more incriminating evidence surfacing in the TRP Scam, the WhatsApp chats between ex-CEO of BARC Partho Dasgupta and ex-BARC COO, Romil Ramgarhia, revealed one of the many modus operandi used to suppress Times Now numbers.
More proof of sabotage has come out where strategies have been revealed to pull down numbers of the rival channels. Chats show how the tainted ex-BARC chief asked Romil Ramgarhia, ex-BARC COO, to unleash his troll army to suppress Times Now s Kolkata Numbers.
India News: The chats document a constant flow of communication between Dasgupta and Goswami and chats between former BARC’s chief operating officer Romil Ramgarh
Sunday 17 January, 2021 | 9:47 AM
MUMBAI: “Bigger than a normal strike.” That is what Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami told Partho Dasgupta, the former Chief Executive Officer of the Broadcast Audience Research Council , which measures television ratings, in a purported WhatsApp chat on February 23, 2019.
Three days later, on February 26, 2019, the Indian Air Force carried out a strike targeting a Jaish-e-Mohammad training camp in the Pakistani town of Balakot. The attack was billed as India’s response to an attack on February 14, 2019, in Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir, in which 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel were killed after an explosive-laden car driven by a suicide bomber rammed into their bus.
Arnab Goswami arrested by Mumbai Police in 2018 case
Arnab Goswami has again been grabbing headlines after his WhatsApp chats were allegedly leaked online. Screenshots of chats between the Republic TV honcho and ex-BARC CEO, Partho Dasgupta have gone viral. It has been alleged that Goswami and Dasgupta were together involved in a TRP scam.
Dasgupta allegedly had directed BARC executives to change the ratings favouring Arnab Goswami s – Republic Bharat and Republic TV. In exchange, Arnab has allegedly shared many big political developments, shuffles, changes to the former BARC chief.
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Apart from Goswami and Dasgupta, the allege leaked chats also show a conversation between BARC s former chief operating officer Romil Ramgarhia and Republic TV CEO Vikas Khanchandani. Apart from allegedly sharing the highest level of data with the Republic, the chat shows how policies were altered to make sure the Republic appears to be on top.