Your language is not suitable for intellectual debate: International panelist slams Arnab Goswami
New Delhi: International Affairs expert Gilbert Doctorow on Tuesday slammed Republic TV Chief Arnab Goswami and added that his language was not fit to carry an intellectual debate.
Gilbert was appearing as a panelist on one of Arnab’s shows covering military tensions between Ukraine and Russia.
Reacting to the question posed by Arnab, the panelist from Lisbon started by asking whether he is “allowed” to speak and remarked that Goswami has established a “Kangaroo court” by his way of moderating the panel.
Further, he commented on Goswami’s verbatim and his use of “hyper words” and “emotive language” that are not suitable for intellectual discussion while highlighting Arnab’s brutal response to another panelist from China.
Gilbert asserted that “it is nothing but an irresponsible and senseless war and that the war is against NATO. The end game of Putin is to show the shambles that NATO is, and to take the American knee off the neck of Europe.”
The panelist took a jibe at Goswami as he stated that “the major beneficiary, if Putin wins would be China and India and therefore the show is against the interests of your own country.”
Arnab ko usi channel pe Anti-national bol diya 🙈 “You are against the interest of your country” pic.twitter.com/GV8kRvjrYk
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
