The INDIA bloc on Thursday announced a list of 14 television news anchors whom it intends to boycott, vowing that no representatives from the Opposition alliance’s parties will appear on the shows and events helmed by these anchors. The BJP deplored the move, with party president J.P. Nadda blaming it on an “Emergency era mindset”.
In its first meeting on Wednesday, the INDIA coordination committee had authorised its working group on media to draw up the list. The boycott applies only to the specific anchors and does not extend to their organisations. The blacklisted anchors are: Aditi Tyagi, Aman Chopra, Amish Devgan, Anand Narasimhan, Arnab Goswami, Ashok Shrivastav, Chitra Tripathi, Gaurav Sawant, Navika Kumar, Prachi Parashar, Rubika Liaquat, Shiv Aroor, Sudhir Chaudhary, and Sushant Sinha.
