JNU student Shehla Rashid, who also doubles up as freelance protestor in her free time, “showed Republic TV their place” and “threw them out” at a protest meet held after journalist Gauri Lankesh’s murder.
https://twitter.com/nostradamuspeak/status/905458795723210753
Shehla, who also champions freedom of press when she could take time out of her protesting assignments, was outside Press Club where she thrashed a journalist for covering the meet on Lankesh’s murder. Here it is important to note that Shehla is neither a journalist nor a representative of the Press Club to ask a journalist to leave the premises.
Initially, she was hailed for her ‘bravery’ by the media persons.
https://twitter.com/MirchiSayema/status/905838256767418369
https://twitter.com/DeepalMirror/status/905856055237738496
However, the journalists started calling her out on her behaviour. Even the left, left-liberal ones, who don’t particularly agree to Republic TV’s way of working.
https://twitter.com/ShekharGupta/status/905802355429359616
https://twitter.com/Rajyasree/status/905810175893704704
https://twitter.com/abhishekdey04/status/905464670487642112
https://twitter.com/abhishekdey04/status/905463299751288834
https://twitter.com/psychia90/status/905852622288035840
Some even tried to defend Shehla’s stunt by saying how it is her prerogative who she wants to talk to
https://twitter.com/psychia90/status/906021088399810560
However, more and more support poured in from the media fraternity for Republic TV journalist, who was just doing his job of reporting an event.
https://twitter.com/HartoshSinghBal/status/906049678537482241
https://twitter.com/AartiTikoo/status/906010684483178496
https://twitter.com/vaishnaroy/status/906076329283428352
https://twitter.com/manakgupta/status/906030578792669185
Shehla then tried to defend her bullying a reporter by saying how Republic TV is a “platform for bullying”
https://twitter.com/Shehla_Rashid/status/905726124818178048
Irony just became a PhD research scholar to waste tax payers’ money for a couple of more decades.