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In a flurry of Twitter activity on Sunday, Essel Group chairman and Rajya Sabha member Subhash Chandra weighed in on the day-long ban imposed by the Centre on NDTV India. Actually, ‘weighed in’ might be a tad tame, so let’s try that again. Chandra laid into NDTV with all the daintiness of a sledgehammer being brought down on a five-foot-tall stack of wine glasses. The head of the Zee Media Corporation began his flurry by calling for a permanent ban on the Hindi news channel, stating that a day was an insufficient time frame for a ban. He went on to add that in his opinion, NDTV would get no relief from the courts either. Next, training his guns on the Editors Guild that had come out in NDTV’s defence, he claimed that it was during the UPA regime that there was talk of banning Zee, however, the guild maintained a conspicuous silence back then. Questioning the legimitacy of referring to the government’s actions as a reminder of the Emergency, Chandra put his unstinting support behind the government’s move. See his tweets here:
NDTV पर 1 दिवसीय प्रतिबन्ध नाइंसाफी है, यह सजा बहुत कम है! देश की सुरक्षा से खिलवाड़ के लिए उन पर आजीवन प्रतिबन्ध लगाना चाहिए था (1/5)
— Subhash Chandra (@subhashchandra) November 6, 2016
मेरा तो यह भी विश्वास है की अगर NDTV न्यायालय में जाए तो उसे वहां से भी फटकार ही मिलेगी (2/5)
— Subhash Chandra (@subhashchandra) November 6, 2016
UPA काल में Zee पर प्रतिबन्ध की बात चली थी तब NDTV, बाकि तथाकथित बुद्धिजीवीयों ने मौन धारण करा था, Editors Guild भी चुप्पी साधे हुआ था (3/5)
— Subhash Chandra (@subhashchandra) November 6, 2016
पर आज गलत को गलत कहने पर, कुछ लोग आपातकाल कह रहे है! क्या देश की सुरक्षा का कोई भी महत्त्व नहीं? (4/5)
— Subhash Chandra (@subhashchandra) November 6, 2016
देश की सुरक्षा में दो मत नहीं हो सकते। सरकार द्वारा NDTV इंडिया पर एक दिवसीय प्रतिबन्ध को मैं बिलकुल सही मानता हूँ! (5/5)
— Subhash Chandra (@subhashchandra) November 6, 2016
Fortunately for NDTV, the matter will not be decided on by Chandra, but the Supreme Court.
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