To which Mr Thappar further questioned, “You have said this 5-6 times with passion that the real intention of Mr Adani was to remove you, he has acquired the channel because he wants to get rid of you and silence you.”
In an interview with digital portal “The Wire” to discuss and explain his resignation from NDTV India, where he was the channel’s star anchor on their Prime Time programme, and to also discuss Gautam Adani’s intention of acquiring a majority stake in NDTV, journalist Ravish Kumar claims that the industrialist is spending hundreds or thousands of crores only to silence him (Ravish Kumar) and to make him unemployed.
“Even I believe that this game was set-up to sack me. The amount spent to get me unemployed could have employed 1000s of youngsters from UP- Bihar.,” The veteran journalist said.
To which Mr Thappar further questioned, “You have said this 5-6 times with passion that the real intention of Mr Adani was to remove you, he has acquired the channel because he wants to get rid of you and silence you.”
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Mr Thappar went on further and asked: “Is this because you have made Modi uncomfortable and Mr Modi has asked Mr Adani to shut Ravish’s mouth by hook or by crook and is that the reason you believe Mr Adani is silencing you on behalf of the Prime Minister who does not like you? ”
To which Mr. Kumar responded, What is the interactions between the two, is something we would never know but in this particular context we can guess and the guess ain’t baseless.
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