In a rare show of editorial courage, Aaj Tak anchor Anjana Om Kashyap cornered BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia over the remission of sentence of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case, and asked audience present in the studio to rally behind her questions as the party leader tried to digress from the issue.
The face-off was part of her show Dangal – in which Anjana discussed RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s outreach to the Muslim community – on Thursday last week. Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate and BJP’s Bhatia were panelists on the debate – Shrinate’s party has claimed that Bhagwat’s recent camaraderie with Muslim clerics at religious sites was a response to Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra.
