Arnab Goswami smashes Congress’ absurd charge against him; urges media to introspect

It is beyond absurd to suggest that expecting India to strike back at Pakistan, after Pulwama attack, was a crime. It was publicly available information and thousands of journalists reported, wrote, brocast and analysed in same direction after Pulwama. re are thousands of articles from that time suggesting a hard and tough response from Indian Forces. Government stated same in interviews to our Network and elsewhere, which were brocast across world. Two things were me public at that time, officially— 1. That re will be an extremely tough military retaliation by India. 2. That time and place of retaliation will be chosen by India. 

I am horrified that Congress party actually thinks that any journalist in India expressing views publicly stated by Government is committing a crime. In last 10 months, from an attempted acid attack on me to framing of fake and false cases to arresting me illegally (in a case which Supreme Court said h no prima facie merits) to assaulting me, my wife and my son, and slapping cases against m to filing an omnibus case against my entire newsroom and all my editors to putting me in jail on trumped up charges to assaulting me in custody to interrogating my colleagues for 500 hours to whiplashing my colleague Ghanshyam with a chakki belt in custody and now joining hands with Pakistan to questioning my love and commitment to this great nation. I have been through it all. 

Millions of Indians have joined hands with me today. I have support of every nationalist Indian, and I don’t need a certificate from anyone else. 

To media in India: I request a moment of introspection. You may not agree with my views, you may not agree with my ideology, you may not agree with my Network— but if you are quiet today when a journalist is targeted for a WhatsApp chat on a publicly available information— n think about precedent being set. I have faced enough incarceration, I’m rey for some more. 

To all my supporters: Let us rally now to fight for truth, with ALL our might. 

Satyamev Jayate! 
Bharat Mata Ki Jai! 
Jai Hind!