Liberals and custodians of free speech come together to justify attack on Arnab Goswami and his wife by Congress goons

Republic TV’s Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami was attacked by two bike-borne assailants little after midnight on 23 April, 2020 near his residence in Mumbai. Soon after, he released a video wherein he said that the two men belonged to Yuva Congress and had attacked him to ‘teach him a lesson’ after he had questioned Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s silence on Palghar sadhu lynching.

However, soon after the attack on Goswami, the liberals and the defendants of freedom of press implicitly justified and defended the attacks on Goswami.

https://twitter.com/waglenikhil/status/1253155887281307648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Instead of condemning the attack on a fellow journalist, no matter how much of difference of opinion one has, Wagle implied that the attack on Arnab is justified since his criticism of Sonia Gandhi over Palghar lynching does not fall under Freedom of Expression. https://twitter.com/scribe_it/status/1253166235342127109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Another columnist Ravi Ratan implied that the attack on Goswami was ‘a story’ created to ‘divert attention’ from the imminent arrest. He further urged Maharashtra government to first arrest Goswami and then investigate the attack. He wrote attack in double quotes, implying the attack was staged. https://twitter.com/AatishTaseer/status/1253060637669933057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw NYTimes columnist Aatish Taseer, who usually likes to claim that freedom of press in India is stifled, referred to Goswami as ‘ridiculous creature’.

Taseer’s Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card was recently revoked as he had concealed that his father was a Pakistani citizen. He has regularly displayed Hinduphobia and spoken the same language of the Islamists who killed his father in Pakistan.

NDTV journalist Nidhi Razdan slyly referred to Goswami as the pandemic India is facing.

https://twitter.com/Nidhi/status/1253158139106430976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Some even cast aspersions on allegations of Arnab Goswami that he was attacked and already passed judgement that his claims are false. https://twitter.com/VidyaKrishnan/status/1253179655927947264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/suchitrav/status/1253073422999003136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw A man associated with an online portal also took to Twitter to downplay and dismiss the attack on Arnab. https://twitter.com/Memeghnad/status/1253166846653628417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Congress supporters attack Arnab, this time virtually

Meanwhile, Congress supporters on social media have started trending ‘DramaBandKarArnab‘ hashtag.

https://twitter.com/SaralPatel/status/1253068691228504069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Congress IT cell members accused Arnab of concocting up the attack on him. https://twitter.com/SaralPatel/status/1253067435944685577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/DwivediSurbhi/status/1253074998568386566?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Bollywood starlet turned Congress leader Nagma accused him of crying foul for questioning Sonia Gandhi because she is a widow of a former PM. https://twitter.com/nagma_morarji/status/1253082380891348993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Congress spokesperson Akhilesh Singh seems to have thought of competing with his colleague Alka Lamba on who puts up more despicable tweets. https://twitter.com/AkhileshPSingh/status/1253169118850605056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Earlier, Lamba had hailed Yuva Congress after Goswami released a video stating that the two men who had attacked him were Yuva Congress workers.

Attack on Arnab Goswami

In the intervening night of 22nd and 23rd April, after his regular edit call post the 10 PM debate, Arnab Goswami and his wife were driving back home when two bike-borne assailants attacked their car. According to our sources, the assailants parked their bike in front of Arnab Goswami’s car in order to get him to stop the car and then attacked it. Arnab Goswami and his wife have escaped unhurt. The assailants, after attacking the car and trying to break the windows, also threw ink at the car. According to Republic TV, the goons confessed that they were from Congress and the attack took place only 500 meters away from Goswami’s residence, according to Republic TV.