India Today & Rajdeep Sardesai’s Fake News Factory Lambasted By Rashtrapati Bhavan

There are lies, damned lies and Rajdeep Sardesai. In a scathing letter to the India Today Group, the Office of the President of India rebuked the channel and its consulting editor Rajdeep Sardesai over the uncalled for controversy on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s portrait that was unveiled by President Ram Nath Kovind on January 23, marking the 125th birth anniversary of one of the greatest son of India.

The letter written by the President’s Press Secretary Ajay Kumar Singh and addressed to Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of India Today Group Aroon Purie, for not verifying the facts and making baseless allegations for political gains.

The letter stated, “I am writing to you with reference to a needless and avoidable – rather shameful – controversy in which a section of journalists, including some from the India Today group, dragged the Rashtrapati Bhavan for motives that are not clear to us.”, the letter read.

It further stated that how a section of journalists including Rajdeep Sardesai had peddled that the portrait was not that of Netaji’s but a Bengali actor named Prosenjit Chatterjee without verifying the facts.

It further noted that, “The regrettable part is that senior journalists of your Group did not bother to check the facts. Before making a serious claim like this, they could have checked with any member of Netaji’s family (for example Mr. C.K. Bose, who clarified on Twitter that the portrait was indeed of the great leader himself), or with the actor himself (who too put the record straight) as well as with the Rashtrapati Bhavan itself. They did not do any of the fact checks do any of the basic fact checks and joined the ranks with those who were throwing wild accusations for political gains. In gleefully ridiculing this high Constitutional office, they not only discredited their professional ethics but also cast a shadow on the office of the President of India.”

The letter also stated that this was not a momentary lapse of judgement or a forgivable slip of the pen and added that these journalists merely deleted their tweets without owning up to the blunder.

The letter thus concluded that “I believe this is unpardonable conduct for the individuals involved as well as for the platform from which they seek to draw legitimacy. This episode has caused deep distress at the Rashtrapati Bhavan and we are forced to review our engagements with the India Today group.”

As soon as the President unveiled a portrait of Bose, the usual suspects in the media and several political leaders from the opposition jumped in to say that the person in the portrait was that of a Bengali actor named Prosenjit Chatterjee who had played Bose in his biopic.

Mohua Mitra, Trinamool Congress MP who is known for her voluble dramatic theatrics in Parliament, criticized about how the President donated ₹5 lakh to the construction of Ram Temple at Ayodhya but ‘honoured Netaji’ by unveiling a portrait of actor Prosenjit.

“God save India (because this government certainly can’t)” she wrote.

However, she later deleted this tweet.

The card carrying members of the anti-BJP parties in the media joined in the bandwagon of mocking the portrait of Bose unveiled by the President. Sagarika Ghose, wife of Rajdeep Sardesai called the portrait as ‘fake Netaji’. Like his pea-brained wife, Rajdeep Sardesai too tweeted stating that the President could have put up an original portrait of Netaji adding that the one unveiled by President was the picture of actor Prosenjit.

Barkha Dutt, Swati Chaturvedi, and Roshini Singh who run a cottage industry of hating the BJP & RSS too deprecated the Hon’ble President of India.

However, their web of lies and ignorance was exposed soon as Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s grandnephew Chandra Kumar Bose, busted the lies peddled by these personalities.

Chandra Kumar Bose posted the picture original photograph of Netaji based on which portrait was drawn by Paresh Maity.

These fake journalists and their political masters became a but of jokes in the social media for displaying their grand ignorance and unnecessary politics over Netaji. There seems to be a pattern in spreading fake news in an concerted manner by a baseless allegation made by the Congress-leftist ecosystem which is backed by their foot soldiers in the media.

It is noteworthy that the President’s Office made it a point to expose the lies of the fake news factories as in the past also they tried to malign President Ramnath Kovid’s stature by alleging a fake news that he and his wife were not allowed into the ancient holy Jaggannath Temple at Bhubaneshwar by the head priests as President Kovid is a Dalit.

This was refuted by the temple administration and the priests of the temple as malicious lies and they also provided photographic evidence of personally greeting the President and him offering prayers at the temple.

Unlike what the Congress-commie ecosystem try to portray, they have a deep sense of derision and condescension towards people from humble backgrounds who due to sheer hardwork and capabilities occupy seats of high office and not due to virtue of being a member of the Nehru dynasty and belonging to Lutyens Delhi cabal.

The President of India has shown the way by indicating that his office would review their engagements with the India Today Group, the same should be followed by all ministries of the central government to make them behave.

The central government should also take strong steps like permanently closing the TV channels or news web portals who spread fake news in disturbed situations which has potential to incite riots and anarchy as we saw recently in the case of death of a farmer protestor, Navreet Singh who died in an accident of his own making which was spun as a murder by a police man by shooting him on the head.

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