Party says issue raises concerns over national security
The Maharashtra unit of the Congress on Saturday demanded a probe into the revelations made in the alleged WhatsApp conversations between Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami and recently arrested former Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) CEO Partho Dasgupta.
The transcript of the messages was a part of the supplementary chargesheet filed by the Mumbai Police in the Television Rating Points (TRP) case. “The chats, which are in public domain, are no longer limited to the scam. Mr. Goswami’s reference to the Balakot strike and that the Pathankot attack was breaking news on his channel 20 minutes in advance, makes it an issue of national security. We will be meeting State Home Minister Anil Deshmukh to demand a high-level probe,” said State Congress general secretary Sachin Sawant.
Republic TV owner Arnab Goswami. File
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Transcript of WhatsApp messages between them, which is part of additional charge sheet filed by police probing TRP tampering case, reveals
Three days before the Indian Air Force’s Balakot strike, Republic TV Editor Arnab Goswami told his friend and former Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) CEO Partho Dasgupta ‘something big will happen’, indicating that he knew about the confidential military action, transcript of WhatsApp messages between the two, which is part of the supplementary charge sheet filed by the Mumbai Police investigating the TRP tampering case reveals.
On February 26 2019, the IAF hit a Jaish-e-Mohammad training camp in Pakistan’s Balakot town. The government claimed that this was in response to the February 14 terrorist attack in Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir, where 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel were killed after an explosive-laden car driven by a suicide bomber ram
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Three days before the Balakot airstrike, Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami allegedly told Partho Dasgupta, former CEO of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) that something major will be done this time , showing that he was privy to the plans of the Air Force s action, several media reports have said.
According to the alleged transcript of WhatsApp chat between Goswami and Dasgupta, which is part of the supplementary charge sheet filed by Mumbai Police before a court in the TRP scam case, Goswami on February 23, 2019 allegedly said that the Central government was planning to carry out a bigger than normal strike .
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The leaked WhatsApp chats of Arnab Goswami, an anchorperson of Indian Republic TV, exposed the sinister designs hatched by Modi’s government to blame Pakistan for the false Pulwama attack, followed by a botched air strike on Balakot in 2019.
According to Indian media, a 500-page document regarding chats of Arnab Goswami with Partho Dasgupta, the former chief executive officer of Broadcast Audience Research Council, revealed damning information related to Goswami s closer ties with Prime Minister Modi’s office and members of the ruling government.
These chats showed that Goswami had prior information about some of the sensitive events and details including the Balakot attack, three days before it happened.