The newly-formed Opposition bloc INDIA will boycott 14 news anchors from half-a-dozen English and Hindi channels in the country, among whom are Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami, Bharat24’s Rubika Liyaquat, India Today-Aaj Tak’s Sudhir Chaudhury and TimesNow group editor Navika Kumar.
The grouping’s coordination committee decided Wednesday not to send representatives to their shows, in keeping with their long-standing grouse that a section of the media only mouth the ruling BJP’s narrative. In the past, certain Opposition leaders have even called them “Modia”.
The other ten singled out by INDIA’s media sub-committee are Chitra Tripathi, Gaurav Sawant and Shiv Aroor from the India Today-Aaj Tak network; Aman Chopra, Amish Devgn, Anand Narsimhan from CNN-News18; Sushant Sinha from TimesNow; Prachi Parashar from India TV; Aditi Tyagi from Bharat Express and Ashok Shrivastava from DD News.