Month after Zee exit, Deepak Chaurasia set to launch digital venture ‘on Ram Navami’
A month after he decided to quit Zee News, television news anchor Deepak Chaurasia is now set to launch his digital venture “Aage Se Right” on April 17.
In a tweet that set the tone for the event as well as clarified the venture’s editorial position, Chaurasia tried to take potshots at the Congress. Slamming the party’s decision to field “Tukde Tukde Gang posterboy” Kanhaiya Kumar as a Lok Sabha candidate in Delhi, Chaurasia claimed the Congress had been accused of “including” left-leaning candidates and ideology.
टुकड़े-टुकड़े गैंग के पोस्टर बॉय कन्हैया कुमार को दिल्ली में मनोज तिवारी के खिलाफ खड़ा कर काँग्रेस ने एक बार फिर देश विरोधी नारे कांड की यादें ताजा कर दी
— Deepak Chaurasia (@DChaurasia2312) April 15, 2024
दरअसल, काँग्रेस राइट और लेफ्ट के बीच की विचारधारा को रखने वाली पार्टी रही है! लेकीन अब उसपर आरोप लग रहे हैं, की उसने लेफ्ट… pic.twitter.com/MrKiV0L96q
“Congress has been a party with an ideology between right and left. But now it is being accused of not only including the ideology of the left but also their leaders. To understand my analysis and correct ideology on these issues, join my website #AageSeRight which will be launched on April 17 i.e. #Ramnavami,” he wrote on X.
Chaurasia is probably the first prominent mainstream television news professional from among voices seen as pro-government – and sympathetic to the right wing – to have made the shift from TV to digital. Several others, including NDTV journalist Ravish Kumar, and Abhisar Sharma of ABP News, have left the TV medium before to try to sustain online ventures – but most of them are seen as critical of the government.
It’s not that Zee News didn’t allow Chaurasia ample space to offer such analyses. While the reason behind Chaurasia’s exit from the network isn’t clear, Newslaundry earlier reported on a string of resignations and sackings at Zee over a financial crunch.
The anchor, who left News Nation amid controversial circumstances in 2021, was earlier expected to return to the television screen with a primetime show on Bharat Express.
However, an email sent to Zee News staff by the channel’s HR department in January announced his entry as a consulting editor and anchor.
Chaurasia, who has previously worked with Aaj Tak, ABP News and India News in a nearly three-decade career, had joined News Nation in 2019 and left in December 2021, shortly after anchoring his show in a purportedly inebriated state. He was the TV channel’s consulting editor at the time.
source https://www.newslaundry.com/2024/04/15/month-after-zee-exit-deepak-chaurasia-set-to-launch-digital-venture-on-ram-navami