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BJP Spokesperson Guru Prakash Paswan Calls Out India Today Anchor Preeti Choudhary For Bias

October 26, 2023
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Dr. Guru Prakash Paswan the National Spokesperson of the Bhartia Janata Party (BJP) who is also an Assistant Professor (Law), at Patna University, has called out the  on the liberal privilege extended by the News Channel India Today during a debate. 

Paswan who is one of the young emerging Dalit leaders within the BJP expressed his disappointment with the treatment meted out to him by one of its senior anchors, Preeti Choudhary on 25 October 2023. During the debate, the BJP spokesperson was not given enough time to put forth his views during a one on one debate on the topic of caste census.

Taking to X, (Fromally Twitter), Paswan said, “For the first time in years of my debates I am expressing my strong views regarding a debate for the @IndiaToday conducted by Ms. Preeti Choudhary today. The congress spokesperson was visibly given more time in the one on one debate. I have never and will never interfere when the other person is speaking as this is not the part of our Sanskaar. So the liberal privilege,”.

He further added that “It is completely appropriate for Rahul Gandhi ji to ask about the castes of the media persons in the press conference but the virtue signalling by the anchor when I brought the question of congress feudalism is disturbing at so many levels. This is precisely the problem with the elites and their institutions. They will ask ‘can the subaltern speak’ but will not allow the subaltern to speak.” 

It is a known fact that when the liberals lose an argument, some of the anchors in India Today and in other news channels would simply cut off the opposition. While Paswan is known for his civility and not interrupting when others speak, he was constantly interrupted and not given enough time to speak by Preeti Choudhary.

Pawan had said that “once the YouTube link is out – I request you to see the combined time allotted to spokesperson from the JD(U) and the Congress with respect to the BJP. No matter what happens, no force in this world can stop the subaltern to speak now. Jai Bhim Jai Bharat.”

 It must be noted that the same type of treatment was given to BJP national spokesperson Shezad Poonawala during a debate.

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