ABP journalist calls news report by his own channel fake to attack PM CARES Fund and PM Modi: Here are the details – OpIndia

A war of words has erupted on Twitter between activist Ankur Singh and ABP journalist Abhinav Pandey after the latter called one of its own news channels report fake, in order to attack the central governments PM CARES Fund. The controversy erupted after the ABP journalist took to the microblogging site to cast aspersions on PM Modis PM Cares Fund.

In response to the journalists tweet criticising the BJP government for establishing the PM Care Fund instead of the PM National Relief Fund, activist Ankur Singh used a series of tweets to educate the journalist. Ankur shared a snippet of a video uploaded by ABP news on its YouTube channel on May 27, 2020.

The controversy worsened after Abhinav Pandey, in order to castigate the Modi government and prove his skewed perception right, shamelessly went on to call his own news channels report fake.

The May 2020 ABP report, which summarised the difference between the PM Cares Funds and the PMNRF, clearly states that the President of the Congress partyis still very much a member of the managing committeeof the Prime Ministers National Relief Fund (PMNRF), a fact that the ABP journalist was vehemently refuting in his Tweets.

OpIndia has also written a detailed report about the Prime Ministers National Relief Fund, in which it is clearly mentioned that PMNRF has the PM, deputy PM, finance minister, Congress president and a representative of the Tata Trustand industry representative chosen by FICCI, as members of the trust whereas PM Cares have up to 13 eminent experts to undertake relief or assistance of any kind relating to a public health emergency including the creation and up-gradation of healthcare facilities. Most importantly, the eminent experts will be working pro bono.

Here, rather than gracefully accepting his mistake, Abhinav Pandey defended himself and blamed Ankur Singh for sharing a bogus video. According to Pandey, no fraudulent video can be passed off as genuine by affixing the news channels logo. The ABP news logo has changed, according to the journalist, and the sample of video shared by Ankur was not posted on his channel.

Then, before one could even realise, ABP News made the aforementioned video posted on its YouTube channel private. The archive version of the report by ABP News can, however, be viewed here.

After the ABP News journalist deleted his Tweet which called the channels report fake, activist Ankur Singh, once again, hit out at Pandey and ABP News for not issuing an apology.

The ABP News journalist, like many other Congress loyalists and trolls, had taken to Twitter to peddle the same lie surrounding the PM Care Fund and questioning the decision to set up a new body when there was already a relief fund in the form of thePrime Ministers National Relief Fund (PMNRF).

Pandey wrote that if in all disasters including floods, storms, money is given from PMNRF, then why not for Covid?

It becomes pertinent to note here that after the Coronavirus pandemic gripped the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had set up the PM CARES Fund and invited people to contribute to the Fund. PM CARES Fund Trust wasformedon 27thMarch this year to receive public donations to fight emergencies or distresses like the current Covid-19 pandemic. Prime Minister is the Chairman of this trust, and its members include Defence Minister, Home Minister and Finance Minister.

After the PM CARES fund was set up by the government, opposition parties and a section of left-liberal intellectuals had launched a campaign against it, alleging that the fund will be misused as it will not be audited by the CAG. Congress president Sonia Gandhi haddemandedthat the entire money collected in the fund should be transferred to the PM National Relief Fund.

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ABP journalist calls news report by his own channel fake to attack PM CARES Fund and PM Modi: Here are the details - OpIndia