Hamid Ansari reveals PM Modi had complained about Rajya Sabha TV

Former Vice-President of India, Hamid Ansari, in his autobiography ‘By many a happy accident’, revealed that Prime Minister Modi had informed him throughout his tenure that the Rajya Sabha TV was not being beneficial to the central authorities. He responded saying that he had no management over the editorial choices of the channel.
Hamid Ansari additionally revealed that the federal government was sad that payments weren’t being handed by the Rajya Sabha amid the din created by opposition events so as to impede their passage. Ansari claimed that “it was technically, procedurally and morally impossible to pass the bills in din, assuming the majority for the government.”
While Hamid Ansari may cite constitutional norms to again his place, there’s loads of proof to counsel that he’s a partisan hack. It is abundantly clear from the truth that in his final interview earlier than stepping down as VP in 2017, he claimed a “feeling of unease”, particularly amongst Muslims of the nation and that the “Idea of India” was being steadily challenged, making him uncomfortable.
When somebody makes such partisan feedback which might be steadily utilized by liberal propagandists to falsely goal the central authorities, it could be extraordinarily shocking, and towards all odds, if his conduct occurred to be impartial as Vice President.
Since the passage from the e-book emerged within the media, there have been just a few responses from authorities sources which have been quoted within the media. The Government has listed 13 payments that had been handed within the Rajya Sabha amid a din when the UPA regime was in energy.
The payments embrace Competition (Amendment) Bill, 2007, Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production , Supply and Distribution (Amendment) Bill, 2007, All India Institute of Medical Sciences and the Institute of Medical Education and Research (Amendment) Bill, 2007, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Reservation within the Posts and Services ) Bill, 2008, Information Technology (Amendment Bill), Street Vendors Bill, and Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill, 2014.
The authorities additionally cited the passage of the invoice addressing the partition of Andhra Pradesh to refute the previous Vice President’s declare of consistency. “He chose different yardsticks for reasons best known to him,” a authorities supply informed Times of India. “It is a belated discovery of a principle,” he mentioned.
With regards to the Rajya Sabha TV, there are some appointments that betray the purported neutrality. MK Venu and S Varadarajan, each with the far-left propagandist portal The Wire, had been paid handsomely for his or her look. They had been paid Rs. 15,000 per look, totaling Rs. 33 lakh and Rs. 14 lakh respectively. Varadrajan and Venu even hosted present on the channel which had been later discontinued.
The Wire had later been accused of stealing content material from Rajya Sabha TV they usually had been served a discover after RSTV accused them of stealing, illegally possessing and utilizing copyrighted materials. The Wire was additionally threatened with civil and legal penalties.
There had been quite a few different controversies that Rajya Sabha TV discovered itself embroiled in throughout his tenure as Vice President. DNA and Tehelka had claimed that between 2010-14, the Rajya Sabha TV had spent Rs. 1700 crores of the taxpayer’s cash. Prashant Bhushan, a favorite among the many left-liberal crowd, had himself moved a PIL alleging irregularities within the appointment of the Rajya Sabha Secretariat, below which the RSTV operates.
A CAG report famous that the the Executive Editors and Executive Directors had spent Rs. 60 lakh on journey even earlier than the channel turned absolutely useful. It additionally revealed that RSTV had made senior stage appointments and stuck their wage constructions which aren’t in keeping with Rajya Sabha secretariat or authorities. The report additionally pointed in direction of a number of advert hoc choices taken by the administration of RSTV.
Thus, fairly clearly, there’s greater than merely a component of fact within the phrases of Prime Minister Modi. It can be essential to recall right here that in his speech on the farewell of Hamid Ansari, the Prime Minister had mentioned that he wouldn’t lastly be free to talk as per his ideology, faraway from his constitutional duties. Since then, Hamid Ansari has batted for Sharia Courts and attended occasions organized by Islamist PFI.
Hamid Ansari had mentioned on Sharia Courts, “People are confusing social practices with the legal system. Our law recognizes that each community can have own rules. Personal laws in India covers marriage, divorce, adoption and inheritance. Each community has a right to practice its own personal law.”
The former VP additionally referred to as nationalism an ‘ideological poison’. “Nationalism in its strident form is inseparable from the desire for power. It is an ‘ideological poison’ that has no hesitation in transcending and transgressing individual rights,” he had mentioned. On one other event, he claimed that Sardar Vallabhai Patel was as answerable for partition of the nation as Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
Thus, contemplating all of this, the central authorities has each proper to really feel that Hamid Ansari intentionally undermined the payments proposed by the federal government within the Rajya Sabha. Furthermore, the style during which the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill, 2014 was handed by the Parliament leaves very skinny floor for the previous VP to make a constitutionalist protection.