Congress to boycott Rahul Kanwal’s TV show after comments by BJP’s Amit Malviya on leaders’ killings
The Opposition party accused the news anchor of allowing remarks about Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi’s assassinations, by Malviya, to ‘go unchallenged’.
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The Congress said on Tuesday that it is boycotting journalist Rahul Kanwal’s television show on India Today channel after he allowed “obnoxious remarks” by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Amit Malviya about the assassinations of former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi “go unchallenged”.
Malviya had said on the show: “Before the Congress claims that their own leaders [Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi] got assassinated, I want to remind them that they were assassinated for the political decisions that they took.”
"Before the Congress claims that their own leaders got assassinated, I want to remind them that they were assassinated for the political decisions that they took," said Amit Malviya#Newstrack pic.twitter.com/21ZB66TaeN— Rahul Kanwal (@rahulkanwal) July 15, 2024
Kanwal’s X account on Monday posted a snippet of Malviya’s comment, which had not been taken down as of 6.10 pm on Tuesday.
“There have been very unpopular incidents that have happened with both Indira [Gandhi] and Rajiv [Gandhi],” Malviya said. “We condemn that. But the progeny of the Gandhis [Rahul Gandhi] today is actually wishing death and assault on Prime Minister Modi.”
The comments were made in light of the assassination attempt on former United States President Donald Trump on Sunday.
“The obnoxious remarks made by BJP spokesperson Amit Malviya belittling the martyrdom of former Prime Ministers of India and other...
