Why was there no censuring from your side Ms Dutt because in the past you have often spoken about containing abusive tweets? Different standards much?Īlso, let you forget, did you rebuke Sanjay Nirupam after he made these comments on Smriti Irani? His other tweets often made uncharitable references to Modi’s personal life. When Newsluandry’s Anand Ranganathan read out a tweet where Jha called Modi a ‘badmaash’, Jha proudly agreed that he stands by that tweet.
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One of the panelists on that show was Sanjay Jha, a regular face of the Congress on many TV channels. Here is the complete truth of the said episode:īack in 2013, in one of the episodes of NDTV’s weekly show ‘The Big Fight’ the topic was ‘Twitter wars’ regarding the hashtag “war” on Twitter between the supporters of Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi. Would you offer a possible and plausible reason for the editing? Fortunately nothing stays hidden on the internet. Dutt can you explain why the following clip was edited out by NDTV from their uploaded version of the show. Even the polite and the ‘oh so charming’ Shashi Tharoor recognized him as a credible voice of the party.īut Ms. These tweets came from a gentleman who happens to be close to Digvijaya Singh, and he is said to be quite important in the Congress party circles. It is absolutely fine for her to personally believe that but can she really dodge the issue of how many journalists of her ilk were politically biased? Also, what about these tweets by a well-known Congress insider: According to her, the congress trolls are wannabes, meaning the right-wingers are the original embodiments of trolls. Dutt singles out the right-wing netizens of India as bunch of loud trolls who though they state facts, state them in a vulgar/abusive manner. In a case of copy-cat aggression, it’s the Congress trolls that are now crying foul ….
The last few weeks however have seen the emergence of a wannabe entity on the other side of the trenches…… It is not unusual these days for the charge of prejudice to be reversed by those still sympathetic to the beleaguered party. They served as a noisy, inchoate but forceful pressure group online - amplifying the BJP’s political message while the Congress was still in deep slumber about the potential of social media as an electoral weapon. Sample this for starters:ĭuring the years the Congress was still in power, it was pretty common for ubiquitous Right-wing twitter trolls to needle and provoke commentators with allegations of political bias.
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However the piece is not free of the bias she has come to symbolize in her long career as a journalist. On 7 November, well-known journalist and TV anchor Barkha Dutt penned a piece in the Hindustan Times titled ‘This is serious: Indian politics moves to being great equaliser’ where she speaks of how the generation of entitlement-seeking Indians is coming to an end.