When Prasad called out Zubair's dubious credentials on social media, IYC President Srinivas BV claimed that the ex-cricketer had somehow descended into disgrace.
Venkatesh Prasad on Saturday night took Alt News cofounder Mohammed Zubair to the cleaners, calling him a serial hate-monger masquerading as a fact-checker.
The contentious article in the Daily Maverick had falsely claimed that Prime Minister Modi had declined to exit his aircraft in response to the South African government's choice of sending only a cabinet minister to conduct his official welcome.
On July 23, Islamists had pelted stones at a group of Kanwariyas near Shahnoori mosque in the Bareilly city of Uttar Pradesh. Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair had tried to shield the Islamists by sharing a crop video