The Congress on Wednesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “khaas dost” (special friend) after reports emerged that the Gautam Adani-led Adani group has launched a hostile takeover of New Delhi Television (NDTV) and described the move as an attempt to stifle the media.
“The news of a deeply over-leveraged company owned by the PM’s ‘khaas dost’ making a hostile takeover bid of a well-known TV news network is nothing but concentration of economic and political power, and a brazen move to control and stifle any semblance of an independent media,” Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh tweeted.
