This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Jayashree Arunachalam, Raman Kirpal and Anand Vardhan are joined by senior journalist Neerja Chowdhury, The News Minute’s editor-in-chief Dhanya Rajendran, and Newslaundry reporter Sumedha Mittal. 

This week marked the 50th anniversary of the Emergency and the central government’s commemoration of the event. Neerja says it was important, since most young Indians today weren’t alive during the Emergency and are unaware of its impact. But “have we learned lessons”, Abhinandan asks, and the panel has varying views. 

Dhanya explains two new bills in Karnataka – one to tackle fake news, and the other criminalising hate speech. She talks about why both are problematic and what the Congress government in the state hopes to achieve.

The panel then discusses Sumedha’s report from Nagpur, where she found over 29,200 new voters were curiously added to the electoral rolls in Devendra Fadnavis’s constituency. This Newslaundry investigation has triggered a political outcry in the state, and Sumedha explains why.

This and a lot more. Tune in!

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