An anchor with the Rajya Sabha TV (RSTV), which telecasts proceedings from the Upper House of Parliament, has been benched for ‘out of context reference’ about former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee during a live debate on the channel. The anchor, Neelu Vyas, reportedly received flak from senior editors and managers of RSTV, for her “unsubstantiated allegation” related to Vajpayee’s past, who at that point of time, was lying on his death bed at AIIMS. The show angered Vice President Venkaiah Naidu so much that the channel had to run a public apology for the incident in its ticker.

An anchor with the Rajya Sabha TV (RSTV), which telecasts proceedings from the Upper House of Parliament, has been benched for ‘out of context reference’ about former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee during a live debate on the channel. The anchor, Neelu Vyas, reportedly received flak from senior editors and managers of RSTV, for her “unsubstantiated allegation” related to Vajpayee’s past, who at that point of time, was lying on his death bed at AIIMS. The show angered Vice President Venkaiah Naidu so much that the channel had to run a public apology for the incident in its ticker.