The INDIA alliance will boycott four news channels and 10 anchors for their “communal coverage” and deflection from issues of public interest.

Newslaundry has learned that representatives of the alliance bloc will not appear on Republic Bharat, Times Now, Sudarshan News and Doordarshan.

Additionally, sources in the alliance’s media committee said they will boycott the shows of these anchors: Aman Chopra, Amish Devgan and Anand Narasimhan of News18, Aditi Tyagi of Bharat Express, Chitra Tripathi of Aaj Tak, Rubika Liyaquat of Bharat24, Gaurav Sawant and Shiv Aroor of India Today, Prachi Parashar of India TV, Sushant Sinha of Times Now Navbharat.

The decision to boycott was taken after the alliance’s first coordination committee meeting on September 13, attended by 12 parties. A member of the media committee confirmed that the channels will be boycotted due to their “communal debates” and on the basis of “how distant their reportage is from the issues of public interest”.

But is the boycott permanent?

The boycotted channels will be “observed over the next few months” and the ban will be withdrawn “if there is improvement”, the committee member told Newslaundry. “In case of no improvement, measures like ban on advertisements for these channels can also be adopted.”

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