The Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Monday requested the federal government to arrange a Joint Parliamentary Committee to probe the purported chats between Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami and former Broadcast Audience Research Council head Partho Dasgupta.
Referring to the purported chats broadly reported in media which talked about that Goswami was aware of the Balakot airstrikes, NCP chief spokesperson Mahesh Tapase stated, “It is extremely shocking and disturbing to know how issues related to national security have been used to gain TRPs.”
Tapase stated he’ll meet Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Tuesday on the difficulty and search clarification from Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the ‘chatgate’.
“The question also arises how Arnab was privy to such sensitive information. The Ministry of Home Affairs has to identify the source and immediately take action,” he stated.
Goswami has been on the forefront in maligning the picture of the Mumbai police and likewise the Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities within the state, Tapase claimed.
“In his TV debates, he tried to give a communal angle to the Palghar incident. The Sushant Singh Rajput death case was blown out of proportion and a false narrative was set. All this was done with the sole intention to destabilise the MVA government,” Tapase stated.
The BJP ought to make clear its place on Arnab Goswami, he stated.
Dasgupta, who was arrested within the pretend Television Rating Point (TRP) case, is now within the ICU of state-run JJ hospital in central Mumbai.
A diabetic, he was rushed to the hospital from the Taloja Central Prison in Navi Mumbai on Saturday after his blood sugar ranges went up on Friday midnight.
The Mumbai police had earlier instructed the courtroom that Goswami had allegedly bribed Dasgupta with lakhs of rupees to ramp up Republic TV’s viewership.
