New Delhi: Prime Time Thursday offered a refreshing choice of issues — from Republic Bharat‘s “breaking news” that actor Kangana Ranaut said she doesn’t trust the Mumbai Police to News Nation calling Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan “brainless”. NewsX discussed PM Modi’s speech at the five-day India-US summit and called it ‘historic’, while CNN-News 18 annnounced: “China checkmated at LAC”.
First, to Times Now, which claimed to have “sensational details” about an alleged three-word threat to PM Narendra Modi accessed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
Gaurav Bhatia, BJP, directly blamed the opposition parties, and commented that dissent is fine, but incitement is not. “The opposition in their hate for PM Modi have forgotten that it’s their duty to love the nation,” he said.
Political analyst and Congress ideologue Tehseen Poonawalla dismissed the letter and said, “I request him [the PM] to get more creative in diverting the attention of this nation.”
Anchor Navika Kumar, predictably, took the opportunity to also remind viewers that “a lobby is working overtime to stop Times Now from reporting on Sushant Singh’s mystery death case”. Kumar said, “I would like to assure all fans of Rajput and this lobby that we won’t back off.” Huh?
On Republic Bharat‘s ‘Mahabharat’, anchor Sucherita Kukreti discussed how the suicide of Disha Salian, Rajput’s former manager, could be linked to his own, after the CBI has begun to probe Salian’s death.
“We have been saying since the beginning that the death of Disha Salian should be probed. I have repeatedly said on ‘Mahabharat’ that Salian’s death is connected to Sushant’s death,” Kukreti shouted.
Kukreti also spoke of the “big breaking news” that actor Kangana Ranaut said that she doesn’t trust the Mumbai Police. What has this got to do with the CBI’s investigation?
NDTV 24×7‘s Sreenivasan Jain chose to look at the Adani Group emerging as India’s “airport king” after it acquired GVK’s stake in Mumbai International Airport and became the second-largest private airport operator in India.
Former executive director of Kingfisher Airlines Parvez Damania said that the GVK group had taken more and more extensions with the Mumbai airport. “We need a group like Adani, which moves very fast,” he stated.
Gurcharan Das, author and former CEO of P&G India, countered, “What we need is a policy that would specify that one company cannot own so many airports.”
Lloyd Mathias, former vice president of PepsiCo noted that aside from the politics of Adani taking over the GVK stake, privatisation has helped improve customer services.
Finally, on News Nation, anchor Deepak Chaurasia asked, “Why is Pakistan spreading venom in India?”
“How far are the strings of Pakistan’s conspiracies against India linked?” Chaurasia demanded, adding, “The face of Pakistan’s conspiracies against India are getting revealed one by one.”
“Pakistan knows that if it has a direct tussle with India, its existence will be finished, which is why, since the last couple of years, Imran Khan and his gang have been triggering anti-India sentiments, provoking Indian Muslims through fake news on social media,” Chaurasia said.
He then aired a tweet by Khan in which he had shared a video from Bangladesh, and claimed it showed Muslims being harassed in Uttar Pradesh. “Imran Khan is brainless,” Chaurasia concluded.
