NDTV Anchor Trolled for Claiming Assam’s Bachelor CM Has 6 Kids

Guwahati, October 25, 2019:

At a time when the people of Assam are waiting for the most eligible bachelor in the state, CM Sarbananda Sonowal to tie the knot, an NDTV anchor earned the fury of netizens for claiming he has 6 children!

NDTV anchor Sonal Mehrotra Kapoor made the people of the state laugh out loud by making such a statement while she was reporting the Assam Government’s recent policy decision of denying government jobs to anybody who has two children.

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Sonal Mehrotra Kapoor tells her viewers that “The interesting bit in this is that the Chief Minister himself has 6 kids, but he has decided to finally implement this two-child policy.” The anchor chose to spread the misinformation without cross checking whether Assam's CM Sarbananda Sonowal is a father to six kids.

This video was also shared by NDTV on micro-blogging website Twitter but now seems to have been deleted by NDTV.

Assam CM has eight brothers and sisters and he is unmarried. This created a furore in the social media with BJP supporters ripping the channel apart for the obvious error.

Anchor Sonal within a short while apologized on Twitter for what she described as ‘an inadvertent slip’.

In a bid to stabilize the state’s population growth rate, the Assam Cabinet decided to bar people with more than two children from having government jobs in the state after January 1, 2021.

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