Thursday saw the Aam Aadmi Party make sensational allegations against the Union Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley.
Both Jaitley and his cabinet colleague, Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani, were quick to issue rebuttal, calling the graft allegations made by the AAP, ‘baseless, blasphemous and preposterous.‘
As expected, this being the day’s biggest news, the channels have already announced their plan to dedicate prime time slots to discuss the fallout of what looks like an editorial set to dominate the news agenda for next few days.
We at www.jantakareporter.com will be discussing the prime time debates between 2100 and 2200 hours IST. We will be posting the key points made at different channels coupled with your observations posted on twitter using hashtag #JantaKaReporter.
Two channels, namely Times Now and News X have already taken a line against AAP giving an idea of the direction tonight’s debates may travel to.
This is how both these channels have plugged their debates on twitter’
TimesNow:
Debating tonight on @thenewshour – Is AAP's DDCA 'expose' a damp squib?#ArvindCricketCard pic.twitter.com/TL7oKBriJc
— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) December 17, 2015
NewsX;
AAP's expose falls flat. Parrots public 'Knowledge.' Join @RShivshankar on #NationAt9 over #AAPVsJaitley.https://t.co/7L2yNi9mmJ
— NewsX (@NewsX) December 17, 2015
Clearly, both these channels have concluded that the allegations against Jaitley had ‘fallen flat’ and were ‘damp squib.’
Let’s hope panelists point out such explicit biases.
JKR: Times Now kicks off its debate with hashtag #ArvindCricketCard, India Today’s debating #ModiKejriWar
JKR: Arnab has already declared allegations against Jaitley a ‘washout.’ You get the idea of how debate will follow
JKR: On India Today BJP’s GVL Narasimha Rao says people are jealous of Arun Jaitley
JKR: Chetan Chauhan on India Today says they took action when they came to know about corruptions
JKR: Ashish Khetan challenges Arnab for calling AAP PC damp squib
JKR: Ashish Khetan of AAP is aggressive, questioning Times Now’s alleged biases
JKR: Shazia Ilmi of BJP on CNN-IBN says AAP lied about Arun Jaitley, Bhupendra Chaubey doing his best moderating the debate
JKR: Bhupendra Chuabey asks if Jaitley should resign on moral grounds, Shazia says ‘what logic, hilarious’
JKR: On NewsX, BJP rep says there’s not a single charge against Jaitley
Love Arnab, but that channel should b renamed as 'SHOUT NOW' #JantaKaReporter
— saahil modgil (@saahilmodgil) December 17, 2015
https://twitter.com/simplytrue123/status/677514318406008832
#Jantakareporter Ashish khetan has not allowed arnab to take his way…good start
— Responsible citizen (@commonmansjob) December 17, 2015
#JantaKareporter @sardesairajdeep is doing a fairly good job
— सुरेश एम एस (@sureshsmysore) December 17, 2015
JKR: @sureshsmysore Yes agree, Rajdeep doing a good job
JKR: Rajdeep asks Saurabh Bharadwaj why AAP not filing FIR, he says do you think Bassi will investigate his boss
Ashish khetan just put a googly to arnab -y did u arnab not report abt sfi report back then? #JantaKaReporter
— Responsible citizen (@commonmansjob) December 17, 2015
JKR: Sambit Patra of BJP asking for decent debate. Both AAP and Congress going jugular. But its very noisy as usual
Whenever khetan says something explosive,arnab shouts to mask it.#ArvindCricketCard #JantaKaReporter
— Responsible citizen (@commonmansjob) December 17, 2015
JKR: Arnab Asking why Congress did not sack Rajiv Shukla after SFIO report was made public.
LIve Prime Time TV Debates, your take! #JantaKareporter – Janta Ka Reporter https://t.co/yOabD6Hou0
— Krishna Prasad (@KrishnaBPrasad) December 17, 2015
JKR: Arnab is unusually less aggressive against non-BJP spokies. Perhaps Asish Khetan’s early charge has worked
JKR: On NDTV, much saner atmosphere. Swapan Sagupta lectures Tom Vadakkan to be careful before accusing people
#Jantakareporter So far sambit has escaped tough specific questions..
— Responsible citizen (@commonmansjob) December 17, 2015
JKR: Agree, @commonmansjob
JKR: Barkha asks a pertinent question. Why did Congress not launch inquiry when it was in power. Is it to divert attention on National Herald
JKR: Raghav Chadha on NDTV says there are 4 reports indicting DDCA of corruption while Jaitley was head of DDCA
I just have to say you are superb @AashishKhetan #JantaKareporter
— सुरेश एम एस (@sureshsmysore) December 17, 2015
JKR; What’s happening on Times Now. Kalappa of Congress wants Patra to drink water, he says thank you ‘I’m a doctor, have my own tablet’
JKR: You think Arun Jaitley was dhritrashtra for 15 years, didn’t see any corruption, says Ashish Khetan
JKR: Arnab says he doesn’t want to have home advantage, will resume debate after break
JKR: On Zee, Sudhir Chaudhary ‘lecturing’ Congress and AAP that they should not consider themselves above law
JKR: Once an AAP sympathiser, Kamal Mitra Chenoy reminds people to respect the anchor for better debate
JKR: Is it just us who think Arnab is unusually defensive against Ashish Khetan tonight?
JKR: If Jaitley is not responsible for DDCA scam, then Manmohan Singh was not responsible for UPA scams.
JKR: We’ve almost forgotten that Sambit Patra is also on Times Now’s panel
JKR: Sambit quips, AAP trying to exhume buried body, Khetan tells him to go and tell this to BJP MP Kirti Azad
JKR: Arun Jaitley lawyer the, cricket mein kya dilchaspi thi unko, asks Ashish Khetan. Sambit tries to answer but can’t be heard
With this the prime time comes to end. We think Times Now gave more one liners, but NDTV and India Today had more sanity
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