On October 22, the Assam government decided that those having more than two children will not be considered for government jobs with effect from January 1, 2021 as per the small family norm.
The decision was taken to stabilize Assam's population growth rate, when average family size of the state is above the national average, which has pushed its population by almost one crore to 3.12 crore between 2001 and 2011 census.
In all its fairness, this decision is for all communities to obey. It is a bad assumption that the minority community always produces more than two children.
Instead of encouraging them to have more children, it is collective responsibility to educate them about the benefits of having fewer children.
However, the Lutyens media, which always looks at some issues through communal spectacles, are agitated over this decision of the Assam government.
One of the Lutyens media went overboard while reporting the two-child norm decision. In a rather theatric manner, NDTV anchor Sonal Mehrotra Kapoor told viewers that, "The interesting bit in this is that the Chief Minister himself has six kids, but he has decided to finally implement this two-child policy."
The video also was posted by NDTV on Twitter, but deleted later, after it was ridiculed by Twitterattis, who said Assam Chief Minister Sarbanand Sonowal does not have six children as he is a bachelor.
This is not the first time Sonal is caught spreading lies.
On August 2 last year, she had published a news on NDTV headlined: "Assam BJP Lawmaker's Nephew Not On Citizen's List. It Happens."
The news mentioned Jaydip Phukan as BJP MP Bijoya Chakravarty's nephew and alleged that former's name was not enlisted in NRC draft since he was outside India.
It also misquoted Bijoya as saying, "He has filed a review and he is getting it. Sometimes, it happens. It will be corrected."
Annoyed with the news, Jaydip expressed his ire against the author of the article on his Facebook handle saying that he is not the nephew of Bijoya and his name is enlisted in the NCR draft alongside his family members.
He also mailed a letter to NDTV, pleading to immediately make the corrections and pull down his image from the incorrect news published by them.
He also tried to contact Sonal to make necessary corrections, but she was unavailable.
In yet another fake news controversy, NDTV published an opinion piece by Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar with a morphed and fake picture of former President Pranab Mukherjee on the occasion of the final leg of three-year training programme called Tritiya Varsh Varg.
The fake picture depicts Pranab da wearing the black cap or doing the RSS salute in contrast to the real picture.
It is surprising that despite Congress IT Cell member Ruchir Sharma calling the picture fake, NDTV moved on to publish it, without cross-checking its genuineness.
NDTV, however, did not change the picture.
In another controversy in July last year, NDTV had used a misleading and unrelated picture for a story on child lifting hoax. They used a violent mob's image to depict an unrelated incident occurred at Maharashtra’s Dhule.
Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore had criticised NDTV for using unrelated image and called it an act that looked like a propaganda.
After changing the image, NDTV neither acknowledged the error, nor apologized for it, but ultimately did so after Rathore brought to their notice on his twitter handle.
In April 2017, social media users and vigilant media observers exposed yet another sin of NDTV and Nidhi Razdan for holding an entire debate based on fake news.
The channel drafted a narrative: Is India becoming a Nanny State? Eventually, it debated central government's plans to fix the portion size of food in restaurants, which actually was untrue as Union Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan explicitly ruled it out.
But, NDTV and Nidhi kept on repeating the lie of 'fixing portions' during the debate.
There are hordes of such fake news perpetrated by NDTV totally in line with another top anchor Sunetra Choudhury who once famously tweeted: "news is always subjective."
Their news is also in line with yet another top anchor Sreenivasan Jain who sliced and diced Baba Ramdev's interview to perpetuate his propaganda.
It is a shame that such liars masquerading as a journalist with facts rule the prime time space in India.
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