TV anchor ridiculed as a cheap version of Arnab Goswami had to face widespread condemnation for his ill-founded tweet against those fervently tweeting to amplify people’s desperate call for help amidst the raging coronavirus pandemic in India. Amish Devgan, who works in Mukesh Ambani-owned TV channel, took to Twitter on Tuesday to lecture on positivity even when scores died across India. Little did he realise that his decision would come to haunt him in a spectacular fashion.
Taking to Twitter, Devgan wrote, “Some ppl are out there just to create negativity & promote depression. Best to keep them at bay by unfollowing. Let’s spread hope & positivity. #WeWillWin.”
As expected, his tweet left Twitterati including many journalists seething. Senior journalist Ajit Anjum quoted his tweet and wrote without mincing any words, “Sycophant Devgan, You call yourself a journalist. Ask for positivity to those who’ve witnessed deaths in their houses. Ask that mother, who saw her son dye before her own eye for the want of oxygen. There are people waiting outside the gate (of hospitals) by having cylinder attached to their neck. As them about positivity. Such desperation for sycophancy.”
चमचे देवगन,
खुद को पत्रकार कहते हो .
जिनके घरों में मौतें हो रही है न , उनसे पॉजिटिविटी पूछो .
जिस माँ के सामने बेटाऑक्सिजन के लिए तड़पकर मर गया ,उससे पूछो.
गले में सिलिंडर लटकाए लोग गेट पर पड़े हैं,उनसे पूछो कि पॉजिटिविटी क्या होती है .
चाटूकारिता की इतनी पड़ी है? https://t.co/T5IYr5wOJw— Ajit Anjum (@ajitanjum) April 20, 2021
Twitterati too reacted angrily to Devgan’s tweet as one wrote, “Go tell this positivity story to the millions of families affected by covid, you spineless wuss. You are directly responsible for this by not holding the government accountable. Silly piece of shit.” Another commented, “After relentlessly forcing hatred and negativity down people’s throats, now they want to keep it at bay!” “Hey Duffer… biggest problem are you people…nonsense,” commented another Twitter user.
Devgan and other pro-government TV anchors have maintained complete silence on the unfolding tragedy of monumental proportion in the country. Far from holding the government to account, these usual suspects in the Indian TV media have made desperate attempts in diverting public attention from the ruling party’s sheer incompetence.
These TV anchors were recently called out for their Islamophobia after they refused to condemn millions of those taking part in the Kumbh Mela in Uttarakhand in the same manner they had hounded the members of the Tablighi Jamaat last year. They’ve also been quiet on the election rallies attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah in Bengal even when thousands have been succumbing to the deadly second wave of the pandemic up and down the country.