Not easily bullied

IN Media Watch Briefs | 08/08/2016

Zee Punjabi channel’s daily news show called ' Mudde ki baat' had to be cancelled on Sunday when the Aam Aadmi Party’s Sukhpal Khaira, who was to be a panelist for a discussion on drugs, was suddenly told that he could not participate. The channel wanted a milder panelist for  the discussion which included  Harcharan Singh Bains, political advisor to the Punjab CM. The AAP insisted that Zee could not dictate who the party should send, and the aggressive Khaira, who was already in the studio when a diktat came, refused to budge. He used the time inside to make a video which also captured the two other panelists! The video has since gone viral in Punjab, and the AAP says it will boycott the channel until it apologizes.