Under Congress government, Pande was conferred with a Padma Shri in 2006 and in 2010 she was made the chairperson of Prasar Bharati. She is now associated with Congress mouthpiece National Herald.
Basu alleged that Boom and Alt News did not fact-check tweets against her on Mayawati tweets because the ones attacking her were 'left liberal Dalit activists' whom these 'friendly fact-checkers' could not call out.