Modi Interview: Ministry asks Prasar CEO to seek board's opinion

“As Prasar Bharati's several earlier recommendations on Doordarshan and All India Radio (AIR) news wings have not been honoured by ministry, leading to complications, we have asked MIB to tell us clearly whether they would abide by a neutral enquiry or not,” Sircar had said yesterday.  

He had also suggested that the public broadcaster could ask external professionals to do an enquiry into the episode pertaining to Doordarshan's interview of Modi. 

Doordarshan had on April 26 interviewed BJP's prime ministerial candidate Modi at Gandhinagar and then telecast it the next day.

However, remarks made by Modi on Priyanka Gandhi and his claims of having been friends with senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel were edited out by DD, but became public through the social media, triggering a row.  

Sircar had himself written a letter to Prasar Bharati board members, saying that questions had been raised about the “impartiality” of the public broadcaster.  DD News which had telecast the interview, however, maintained that “there was no deliberate editing or omission of any portion of the interview.”