Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh has said that the state Cabinet will on Tuesday discuss the purported WhatsApp conversation of Repu...
Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh has said that the state Cabinet will on Tuesday discuss the purported WhatsApp conversation of Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami in which sensitive information related to the Pulwama attack and the Balakot airstrikes was mentioned, reported PTI.
The WhatsApp chats between Goswami and Broadcast Audience Research Council’s former Chief Executive Officer Partho Dasgupta are part of the supplementary chargesheet that the Mumbai Police filed in the Television Rating Points scam case.
The conversation revealed that three days before the Indian Air Force carried out a strike targeting Jaish-e-Mohammad training camps in the Pakistani town of Balakot, Goswami had told Dasgupta that it would be “bigger than a normal strike”.
On Monday, Deshmukh said it was a big question as to how Goswami found out about such sensitive information. “After the meeting, a decision about this issue will be taken,” he said.
The National Congress Party, a coalition partner in the Maharashtra government, has sought a Joint Parliamentary Committee to inquire into the purported chats. The Shiv Sena said the alleged collusion between Goswami and the central government was a breach of India’s national security.
Chhattisgarh CM demand SC-monitored inquiry
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Monday sought a Supreme Court-monitored inquiry into Goswami and Dasgupta’s WhatsApp conversation.
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