New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Monday tweeted that he was going to launch a new video series where he will share his thoughts on “current affairs, history and crisis”.
In a subsequent tweet, Gandhi also hit out at “a large part of Indian news media” that, he said, was “captured by fascist interests”.
“A hate filled narrative is being spread by television channels, whatsapp forwards and false news. This narrative of lies is tearing India apart (sic),” he added.
Today a large part of the Indian news media has been captured by fascist interests. A hate filled narrative is being spread by television channels, whatsapp forwards and false news. This narrative of lies is tearing India apart.
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) July 13, 2020
Gandhi’s announcement comes in the middle of a crisis brewing in the Congress government in Rajasthan, with an ongoing tiff between Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his deputy Sachin Pilot.
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Not his first venture into video series
Gandhi has lately been using videos to conduct interviews and make interactions with experts, mostly for issues pertaining to Covid-19.
The Congress leader has held a series of interactions since April — with economists Raghuram Rajan and Abhijit Banerjee, health experts Ashish Jha and Johan Giesecke, industrialist Rajiv Bajaj as well as former US diplomat Nicholas Burns.
These videos have largely been non-confrontational in nature and kept their distance from partisan politics. Some of Gandhi’s close aides had earlier told ThePrint that the video interviews were not meant to be “mass-y” in their appeal.
It is to be now seen how well his new series will do, given that his video interactions have failed to garner a good reach earlier.
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That RG gets so much attention says a lot about our Press, intellectuals and the nation. He is clearly out of his elements here. He is not an intellectual, why the pretense? I do not see any other politician putting on this pretense. Indian politics does not have intellectuals in it. So please….
Rahul gandhi starts “comedy series”… would have been a better title..
We are waiting in anticipation for new classic RaGa faux pas.
New series by Mr Gandhi for what? To share thoughts of Chinese Communist Party and his best friend Mr Xi?
A new video series by the Duffer….. Wowee!!!
See the eyes movement of Raga. He looks totally lost in Indian politics. He is wasting time and not allowing the most deserving leader in Congress to lead. It’s time for Sachin type young leaders in Congress to come together and form a new party. Congress has outlived its utility to its followers. Just dump the Congress and move on.
Actually Sachin type young leaders in Congress are not grass root leaders, but all these were planted in flower pots. They are neither symbiotic nor autotrophic but called heterotrophs if not a parasite. Even their planters couldn’t dare to start a new party. How can these spoon feds take place of sly,
artful, machiavellian of politics like Gehlot or Kamal Naths.