On sixteenth September 2023, Congress chief Pawan Khera stated that if journalists boycotted by the I.N.D.I. Alliance ‘realise what they are doing is not good’, then the alliance will once more attend their exhibits. He made this assertion in response to a query in regards to the checklist of journalists launched by the I.N.D.I. Alliance on 14th September 2023 whereby it was talked about that the events within the opposition alliance won’t ship their representatives to the exhibits hosted by the journalists talked about within the checklist. Pawan Khera stated this forward of the two-day Congress Working Committee assembly.
Pawan Khera stated, “I do not agree with the word ban. We have not banned anyone. We have not boycotted anyone. We have not blacklisted anyone. This is a non-cooperation movement. We will not cooperate with anybody spreading hatred in society. We are not stopping them from spreading hatred. You want to spread hatred? Go ahead. Do it. You have the freedom to do it. We also have the freedom not to be partners in that crime. They are not our enemies. We do not hate any of these friends of ours in the media. They may have their compulsions. And nothing is permanent.”
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Pawan Khera additional stated, “If tomorrow they realise that what they were doing is not good for India, not good for the society, believe me, we are all together in this. We will again start attending their shows. So do not call it a ban. We are distancing ourselves from that path in a Gandhian way.”
Pawan Khera added, “We have the freedom to change our path if anyone pours garbage on us every day while walking on that path. We are exercising that freedom. It is nothing different than this. All the parties in the I.N.D.I. Alliance unanimously accepted that we need to change our way. We don’t want to be part of this sin by walking on this path. Therefore, you don’t call it a ban. You don’t call it a boycott. You don’t call it a blacklist. This is civil disobedience.”
It is notable that Aditi Tyagi, Aman Chopra, Amish Devgan, Anand Narasimhan, Arnab Goswami, Ashok Shrivastav, Chitra Tripathi, Gaurav Sawant, Navika Kumar, Prachi Parashar, Rubika Liaquat, Shiv Aroor, and Sudhir Chaudhary have been listed as anchors whose exhibits won’t be attended by representatives of the I.N.D.I. Alliance.
A duplicate of the checklist was shared on X, previously Twitter, by Congress chief Pawan Khera on September 14, Thursday. The I.N.D.I. alliance has determined that these are the anchors whose robust questions they aren’t prepared to reply and would solely maybe entertain these anchors who ask Sonia Gandhi whether or not she is aware of the right way to cook dinner pasta.
