Rajya Sabha TV was a shady enterprise of Hamid Ansari with a divisive agenda, Modi govt is altering that

Rajya Sabha TV has all the time been recognized to be a shoddy organisation with all its limbs engaged in corrupt practices, significantly underneath the steerage and safety of former Vice President Hamid Ansari. Ever because the Modi authorities took cost in 2014, and began probes into the working and expenditures of RSTV, Hamid Ansari has been feeling insecure in India. Now, in a remaining blow to what Ansari thought-about his legacy, the Modi authorities has determined to merge each Lok Sabha TV and Rajya Sabha TV into one entity, which will likely be referred to as ‘Sansad TV’. The similar was introduced by the Rajya Sabha Secretariat’s workplace on Monday.RSTV was the brainchild of Hamid Ansari and carried ahead deceitful transactions, engaged in corruption and showcased just one ideology with the channel’s audience being one particular neighborhood. TFI, as early as 2017 itself, had reported extensively in regards to the money-gobbling and shady organisation that RSTV was. The Modi authorities’s choice to merge each LSTV and RSTV into one entity is a really smart one. It shall hold the manager administration, employees and editors of Sansad TV in examine.RSTV was established to cowl the proceedings of the Rajya Sabha in 2011 utilizing Parliament’s Sansad Cable Network with a modest funds of Rs.1.55 crore. However, it was quickly revealed that then Vice President Hamid Ansari was solely behind the ideation of the channel and turned it right into a cash guzzler and a corrupt entity. The preliminary price to arrange the channel was estimated to be round Rs. 28.94 crore, however the determine has shot as much as astronomical quantities because the channel’s inception. Read extra: Massive Money Plundering in RSTV Under Ex-VP Hamid Ansari and His “Chosen” CEO Gurdeep SappalThe funds of RSTV has been greater than any authorities channel, and it additionally didn’t generate any income because it confirmed no ads. As of 2015, RSTV spent a whopping Rs.1700 crore, a sum bankrolled by the taxpayers’ cash in its entirety. As of 2017, the annual funds of RSTV stood at a staggering Rs 69.28 crores, which was 5 occasions greater than that of LSTV. Who was the CEO of RSTV when such a loot was being effectuated by the proxies of Hamid Ansari, chances are you’ll ask?None apart from Gurdeep Sappal – the right-hand man of Ansari and in addition beforehand his Officer on Special Duty (OSD). He was appointed to the highest publish with none ads calling for candidates to use for the job.But that’s not all. RSTV has labored beneath the thumbs of many various fools looting the federal government whereas working as a channel carrying ahead the Congress’ ideology of soft-Islamism. Around 2017, a film named ‘Raag Desh’ primarily based on Subash Chandra Bose and the Lal Qila trials was produced with a funds of Rs.13 crores. Little did individuals know that the film was a creation of RSTV and the capital for the film was supplied by the taxpayers. Amrita Rai, the spouse of Congress chief Digvijay Singh, too performed a distinguished position within the operating of RSTV and made merry on taxpayers’ cash. She additionally acted in Raag Desh, and together with Sappal, allegedly looted crores of rupees for the promotion of the movie which fell flat within the theatres.Hamid Ansari, who additionally served as the top of RSTV, blatantly promoted favouritism by hiring journalists who’re loyal to the Congress get together. The likes of M Ok Venu and Siddharth Varadarajan, founding editors of The Wire, had been paid extravagantly by RSTV at Ansari’s behest, to the tune of Rs. 15,000 per look, totalling Rs. 33 lakh and Rs. 14.70 lakh respectively. Do we nonetheless must spell out from the place such cash was sourced? Romila Thapar and her ilk had been appointed because the advisors at RSTV.The Modi authorities, nicely conscious of all these malpractices and corruption prevalent at RSTV, determined to get rid of the most cancers of an organisation it has turn out to be. One can count on Hamid Ansari to not solely really feel insecure in India however now, additionally workless.