By Raja Chowdhury
New Delhi: While there is national outrage over the death of so many soldiers, A news channel called Republic is displaying its own agenda. Selecting News items which suits and serves their own motives.
Today while they have launched a hashtag #boycottPakistan and asking cricketers, sportspersons, film artists, singers, musicians, businessmen and others to severe ties with Pakistan, the channel has preferred to keep themselves away and did not even in a single line talked on the business relation of National Security Advisor Ajit Doval's son Shaurya Doval.
The channel is very selective. While they are criticising artists and others and calling them 'Anti National', who have not even uttered a single word, either for or against, are being targetted selectively. But not a single word has been spoken about the business relation of Doval's son Shaurya who is learnt to have business partner Syed Ali Abbas is a Pakistani. His another business partner is from Saudi Arabia. Republic has no objections on that.
Also, The Economic Times report called junior Doval ‘an increasingly influential player in shaping Modi sarkar’s policies’. The report also points that India Foundation hosts weekly closed door sessions with the higher ups in the government. The foundation had played an important role in organising Modi’s foreign rallies, including the one at New York’s Madison Square in 2014, according to the Caravan.
Given the highly influential status of Shaurya Doval in India’s power circles and his father’s powerful grip at PMO, Shaurya’s role at Saudi prince partnered investment company raise some questions about lobbying.
The company’s website informs its prospective clients that ‘we get involved as strategic advisers for our core relationships on a case-by-case basis.” On GFS’s mandate and its conflict with his role in India Foundation, Shaurya insists that “there is no conflict of interest as India Foundation does not conduct any commercial transactions either on its own or on behalf of anybody
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