It was a security breach at the Parliament complex on the anniversary of the 2001 Parliament attack, and it was also a protest against “dictatorship”. While some voices, such as BJD MP Bhartruhari Mehtab, cautioned that the incident could not be compared to the terrorist attack, hawkish faces on television couldn't help but play to the galleries.
On Wednesday, Republic TV’s Arnab Goswami termed it a “well-planned terrorist attack” and hit out at “perpetual anarchists”. On Aaj Tak, Sudhir Chaudhary offered a similar take. “These people have raised the hopes of terrorists, have given them a new idea, and have encouraged them,” he said, insinuating a link between one of the protesters and Khalistan proponent Gurpatwant Singh Pannun who had warned of a Parliament attack. How? Because the protester and Pannun had both backed the farm protests, Chaudhary suggested. “How dangerous would be the toolkit of this conspiracy,” he told viewers to wonder.
