The recent exit of senior journalists Punya Prasun Bajpai and Milind Khandekar from ABP News has shaken up the media industry. Following the resignation, social media is surfaced with claims that Punya Prasun Bajpai is joining NDTV from August 15.
Facebook pages like I Support Ravish Kumar has put a post claiming that Bajpai will be joining NDTV and do a show from 8 pm to 9 pm.
The page has 4.5 lakh followers and at the time of filing of this report, the post was shared by nearly 8,000 people at the time.
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Few other Facebook pages shared the same post:
Micro-blogging site Twitter is also not left behind as the same claim went viral on Twitter as well.
तैयार हो जाओ भक्तो 15 अगस्त से दोनों आ रहे है
8:00 – 9:00 पुण्य प्रसून बाजपाई
9:00 – 10:00 रविश कुमार लेकर आ रहे हैं मास्टर स्ट्रॉक की तरह भक्तों अब तेरा क्या होगा— RAJESH KUMAR RANJAN YADAV RJD (@RajeshK39400429) August 6, 2018
तैयार हो जाओ भक्तो 15 अगस्त से दोनों आ रहे है
8:00 – 9:00 पुण्य प्रसून बाजपाई
9:00 – 10:00 रविश कुमार लेकर आ रहे हैं मास्टर स्ट्रॉक की तरह भक्तों अब तेरा क्या होगा— Dharmdev Paswan (@dharmdeorekha) August 6, 2018
तैयार हो जाओ भक्तो 15 अगस्त से दोनों आ रहे है
8:00 – 9:00 पुण्य प्रसून बाजपाई
9:00 – 10:00 रविश कुमार pic.twitter.com/R2Bd6At0vO— Sanjay Chauhan (@SanjayC23691093) August 4, 2018
FACT CHECK
The above claims are not true and senior journalist Punya Prasun Bajpai will not be joining NDTV as there has been no official confirmation from both Bajpai as well as NDTV.
Meanwhile, CEO of NDTV, Suparna Singh, was quoted in AltNews saying: “Our league of top anchors remains unchanged without any new additions.”
