Nidhi Razdan, Executive editor of NDTV, asked Sambit Patra, national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leave her show over a statement he gave defaming her network.

Patra, otherwise a fluent speaker and known for his eloquent ways of argument was caught off guard by Razdan when she very politely announced that she will not take any comments from him anymore after he said NDTV had an ‘agenda’ over the Kerala public bovine slaughter issue.

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Razdan’s show had a panel of five people, including Patra and Congress’s Sharmistha Mukherjee, DMK Spokes person Saravanan among other panelists who were discussing the recent incident where a cow was allegedly slaughtered in public by a few Kerala Congress members to protest against the ban which the BJP has been rooting for.

Patra in his argument stated that NDTV had some ‘agenda’ in arguing against him in this matter. There were also claims that the network has been calling the cow an ox and hence Patra alleged in his statement perhaps implied that NDTV was inclining towards the Congress.

Razdan could not take this anymore, so she asked BJP spokes person to leave the show, very politely. Firstly, she asked Patra to take back his words, to which he denied to do any such thing and then Razdan went ahead and said, “You are welcome to leave the show.”

Visibly upset Patra fumbled for words and said he will not leave the show, and kept putting his point. The other panelists could not stop smiling.

Following this Razdan stated that just because he was being questioned he had no right to accuse NDTV of having an agenda. She further told him that he was more than welcome to go to the channels which are ‘glorified versions of Doordarshan’. Doordarshan is the public broadcasting channel of India, by the way.

In social media she got wide support for her brave act for showing the doors to a ruling party spoken person...

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