In one of the deadliest ambushes yet in the Red Corridor of Chhattisgarh, Maoists attacked 99 CRPF jawans of the 74th Battalion yesterday. A total of 25 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel lost their lives in the attack. This obviously was the top news all of last night, with channels like Times Now asking tough questions of those accountable. Yeah right.
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ContributeAnchors Rahul Shivshankar and Navika Kumar – Arnab-Lites, as we like to call them – took on the role of the channel’s former editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami summoning all the faux outrage they could.
This morning, however, Goswami sort of reminded them who, well, the boss is when it comes to questioning the whole liberal, secular jingbang.
In a series of tweets, Republic TV twitter handle posed questions on behalf of its Editor-in-Chief.
This predictably got him a lot of flak.
Goswami has released promo videos announcing his arrival on television news. And, so far, he seems to be coming back for everyone but the government in power.
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