Barkha Dutt, one of the most recognized faces of Indian journalism, who was Prime Time anchor at NDTV for many years, and now writes for international publications like Washington Post and runs a digital platform called Mojo, has expressed her ineptitude when it comes to knowing Indian polity and basis civics, in a single tweet.
Wonder what happens if @OfficeOfKNath dissolves assembly? https://t.co/83BhbmIfZu
— barkha dutt (@BDUTT) March 10, 2020
Quoting a tweet from Milind Khandekar, former chief editor of ABP news, she wondered what if Kamal Nath, whose government is now in minority in Madhya Pradesh after MLAs loyal Scindia have resigned, dissolves the assembly.
Now, it is 10th class civics knowledge that a Chief Minister cannot dissolve assembly until s/he has a majority government. Even if s/he proposes to dissolve the government, first the governor will ask to prove majority-which obviously a minority government cannot prove- and after passing the test the CM can dissolve it. But again, if the CM has already proved the majority, why s/he will dissolve the government?
Therefore, the stupidity of Dutt has been exposed to this tweet. Many users replied to her tweet and many replies have more likes than her tweet itself.
Only a government in majority can recommend dissolution of the House. If the Governor isn't convinced that the government is in majority, he will first ask the CM to prove majority. A minority government cannot recommend fresh elections.
— Aashish Chandorkar (@c_aashish) March 10, 2020
“Only a government in majority can recommend dissolution of the House. If the Governor isn’t convinced that the government is in majority, he will first ask the CM to prove majority. A minority government cannot recommend fresh elections,” replied Aashish Chandorkar.
Khandekar, whose tweet Dutt quoted, also nodded on the same line. “I agree even if Kamal Nath recommends dissolution of house Governor isn’t bound to accept it. He can do it after winning a majority but in such case why would he want fresh elections,” he tweeted in reply to Chandorkar.
I agree even if Kamal Nath recommends dissolution of house Governor isn’t bound to accept it. He can do it after winning majority but in such case why would he want fresh elections
— Milind Khandekar (@milindkhandekar) March 11, 2020
Barkha Dutt started her career with NDTV. Her family is deeply entrenched in Lutyen’s Delhi, like many other prominent figures associated with the leftist media house. She was educated from St. Stephen’s College with a degree in English literature, and did her Master’s in Mass Communication from Jamia Millia Islamia’s Mass Communication Research Centre.
I am lucky to live in the age of social media. For decades, the social elites who have zero understanding of how things work, were influential, just because they had right connections and low morality.
With social media, their stupidity is exposed everydayhttps://t.co/fhIKT6wcI0— Amit Agrahari (@Amit_Agrahari94) March 10, 2020
In the 21 years career with NDTV, she hosted the daily prime-time show The Buck Stops Here and talk-show We The People. She became a role model for the left-liberal journalistic community and was actively supported by the UPA government. Barkha Dutt along with Rajdeep Sardesai and Vinod Dua was awarded Padma Shri by the Congress UPA government in 2008.
Her family and relatives were in top managerial positions in PSUs and bureaucracy since independence. Barkha Dutt openly took a pro-Congress line despite the fact that as a journalist and a moderator she was expected to be neutral.
In 2016, she changed her role at NDTV to Consulting Editor. In 2017, she permanently resigned from NDTV and later joined Washington Post as contributing columnist in January 2017. Now the only thing Barkha Dutt is left with is Contributing Editor with Washington Post.
People like Barkha Dutt, who have no knowledge of India’s polity, political science, and basic senior secondary school civics, are global opinion shapers about India. A contributing editor at Washington Post- one of the most respected global newspaper- Barkha Dutt regularly writes pieces critical of Modi government and sometimes even against India in general. A person, who does not basic knowledge of country’s civics, is global opinion shaper about the country.
The tweet by Barkha exposes her and her cabal. Many people from left-liberal establishment like Sagarika Ghose, Barkha Dutt and Anglophile Karan Thapar, climbed down the top of career ladder just because have got family connections with Gandhi family, left-liberal establishment, and have low morality. They are ready to compromise with the ‘permanent establishment’ of the country, and in the age of print and electronic media, became global opinion shapers.
But in the age of social media, they are exposed every day by common people and therefore Karan Thapar left Twitter, and Ghose and Dutt get so much backlash for their ignorance and hypocrisy.
