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800 metres away from PM's residence there was a VVIP wedding on 11th March. The Guestlist was full of VVIPs starting with PM Modi,Rajnath Sing, Amit Shah, JP Nadda, FM Sitharaman & CMs from BJP-ruled states.
It was the wedding of Navika Kumar's son.
Stay here frnz. ☺1/12
In 1988 Times Group Hindi Newspaper NavBharat Times Editor Surendra Pratap Singh's wedding was attended by Chief Ministers from 7 states and many Central Ministers. It was highly criticized then. Anand Swaroop Verma in his Book "Patrakarita ka Andha Yug" wrote about this. 2/12
It was the view of the majority of the Journalist fraternity during then that against those your pen is expected to move if you make a sweet relationship with them, your loyalty towards your profession is no more trustworthy.

Pic of some VIPS on 11th March wedding. 👇3/12 twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
11th March wedding of Navika Kumar's son Siddhant in GymKhana Club. Other than BJP Mins Shehzad Punawala, Anand Rangnath, the owner of TimesGroup Vinit & Samir Jain, Rajat Sarma India Tv were present.
No @INCIndia or any other party leadrs were present.
Plz stay frndz. 4/12
With this Navika has established her Leadership in the elite or the Lutyen lobby class she often joked in past years.
It is a significant thing that she didn't care to hide her close bonding with the Ruling Govt. Maybe as all these are normalised these days. 5/12
In 2019 in an interview, Navika Kumar: Even today I'm hungry for news. That hunger is understood by a survey of Newslaundry where it has been found Jan22 to June22
Her 123 nos debates
Communal 45
Anti-Opp 36
Pro BJP 10
Others 32
That interview link.👇6/12
samachar4media.com/interviews-new…
2009 Neera Radia tape. Barkha Dutt still suffers from that leakage of 5000 talks betwn Politicians/Corporates/Journalists. 6-8 journalists were caught & Navika Kumar was among them. Surprised?☺
In that tape Neera Radia told Navika to not share information wid Arun Jetley. 7/12
Nothing to be surprised as Navika Kumar Had a strong relationship Respect/Guide/Mentor with Arun Jetley whom she used to call everyday Morning. She said that herself in 2019 after Arun Jetley's Demise. 🙂 8/12
Neera Radia Tape changed lives of Barkha Datt, Vir Sanghvi but strangely Navika hardly faced 2 wks suspension from studio. She was not even a big name like 2day. Again 2022 Nupur Sharma's row in her show resulted heavily for Nupur but Navika remained untouched.
Stay frnz🙏9/12
After Arnab Goswami left it is not R Shivsankar but Navika who took charge. Despite only 20% representation of Females in TV media hats off to Navika made it. It fastened from2020 #SSR case when she targeted Rhea Chakraborty insanely. Remember this Ekta Kapoor style Entry? 10/12
She is the boss of @TimesNow it can be understood well the rival Republic Group 2021 filed a defamation case Against Navika only.

But her devotion to Ruling made it easy to cross all obligations. In Jan24 when #HindenburgReport revealed she kept bashing @INCIndia 11/12
Finally
She is only a part of a machine built by whom u know well.

Endng this thread with the lines of Raj Kamal Jha, the Editor of Indian Express 6yrs ago who said this after PM's speech. Plz listen frndz.🙏
"Criticism from the Govt is a Badge of Honour"

I Conclude.🙏12/12
All the data here majorly I took from @newslaundry. Please stop watching TV & Subscribe it.🙏
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