A file photo of Republic TV anchor Arnab Goswami. | PTI
The Maharashtra unit of the Congress on Tuesday demanded the arrest of Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, claiming that his purported WhatsApp conversation about prior knowledge of the 2019 Balakot airstrikes amounts to treason, reported
The Hindu.
In a purported WhatsApp chat on February 23 – three days before the strike – Goswami told Broadcast Audience Research Council’s former Chief Executive Officer Partho Dasgupta that it would be “bigger than a normal strike”.
“How did Goswami get the information about the military action three days before the event, on February 23, 2020?,” Congress General Secretary Sachin Sawant told the newspaper on Wednesday. “He [Goswami] himself has said that the person who gave him this information is a big person in the Modi government. All of this needs to be investigated. The way Arnab Goswami acted amounts to violation of the Official Secrets A
Updated Jan 18, 2021 | 09:12 IST
Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh had said that Republic TV and two Marathi channels Box Cinema and Fakt Marathi were involved in manipulating TRPs. Incriminiating WhatsApp chats between Arnab Goswami and former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta | Photo Credit: Times Now
Mumbai: The National Student Union of India (NSUI), the student wing of the Congress, has filed a complaint against Republic TV s Arnab Goswami in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur in connection with the leaked WhatsApp conversations between the Republic TV editor-in-chief and former Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) CEO Partho Dasgupta.
The Opposition parties, including, Congress, Trinamool Congress and Samajwadi Party have raised their concern against the alleged WhatsAPP chats between Goswami and Dasgupta demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe.
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A file photo of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. | Adnan Abidi/AFP
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said he was “ready to work for the party as all desired” at a meeting with Congress “dissenters”, who had strongly called for an organisational overhaul in recent months, reported NDTV.
His statement rekindled speculation about the 50-year-old returning at the helm of affairs, as the party prepares to conduct internal elections so that a full-time president can take over from interim chief Sonia Gandhi.
Rahul Gandhi said that he was “willing to work for the party as all of you desire”, according to senior Congress leader Pawan Bansal, who was present at the meeting. Asked whether Gandhi’s comment signalled his return as chief, Bansal said: “No one has an issue with Rahul Gandhi.. The process of electing a Congress president is in the process.”
Rahul Gandhi aide Ruchi Gupta quits Congress
India
Updated: Saturday, December 19, 2020, 21:55 [IST]
New Delhi, Dec 19: Ruchi Gupta, the national in-charge of the Congress student wing, the National Students Union of India (NSUI) quit the Congress party on Saturday due to delays in organizational changes .
Ruchi Gupta
The resignation of a key Rahul Gandhi aide comes on a day the Congress attempted to mend an internal rift with a meeting between Sonia Gandhi and dissenters who had written a letter criticising the leadership and calling for an overhaul of the organisation. I regret to announce that I have resigned. I am grateful to Rahul ji and Sonia ji (Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi) for giving me this opportunity, she tweeted along with an opinion piece published in The Hindu newspaper.