Sansad TV will merge existing Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha TV and will comprise two channels — one will air all year round while the other will be active when Parliament is in session.
Retired IAS officer of 1986 batch Ravi Capoor has been appointed Sansad TV CEO for one year. He will be responsible for working out the final details of the merger.
Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu ordered the interruption when Home Minister Amit Shah was heckled by opposition members during the introduction of the citizenship bill.
An inquiry said RSTV went beyond its mandate in making the film Raag Desh. Ex-CEO Gurdeep Sappal, considered close to the Congress, calls it a ‘bogus’ inquiry.
Bengaluru-based ‘non-political’ forum is headed by Gurdeep Singh Sappal, former CEO of Rajya Sabha TV and key aide of former Vice-President Hamid Ansari.
BJP believes that Rajya Sabha TV would finally shed its anti-BJP agenda with Venkaiah Naidu taking charge as vice-president and chairman of the channel.
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