Why did Kunal Kamra clash with Arnab Goswami in Flight?

Faizan Musanna
4 min readJan 28, 2020

--

A video of comedian Kunal Kamra and journalist Arnab Goswami has gone viral on social media. In this video, Kunal is seen asking some questions to Arnab Goswami in Kamra Flight. However, Arnab Goswami seems to ignore Kunal and is busy looking at something on the laptop.

During this, Kunal Kamra also uses some abuses for Arnab Goswami. While sharing this video by Kunal himself, Twitter has written — I have done for my hero, I have done this for Rohit Vemula.

However, after this incident, the airline company IndiGo has banned standup comedian Kunal Kamra for six months. The company says that Kunal’s behaviour in a flight from Mumbai to Lucknow was objectionable, due to which he has been banned.

After this, now Kunal will not be able to travel in any aircraft of the company for six months. At the same time, IndiGo has appealed to its passengers to refrain from making personal attacks on each other during the journey as it may endanger the safety of other passengers.

Kunal Kamra has welcomed Indigo’s decision.

In a tweet, he wrote, “Thank you for banning me for six months. Modi Ji is probably going to ban Air India forever”.

He has also issued a statement and said that “When the crew of the aircraft asked me to go to my seat, I returned to my place within 20 seconds. I also apologized to all the crew members. I don’t think I have committed any crime. I apologize to all the passengers on the plane except one person. “

In this viral video, Kunal asks Arnab Goswami, “I am asking the coward Arnab Goswami here some questions about his journalism. Arnab is doing what I expected. Being a coward, first, they call me mentally ill and now they are saying that I am watching something. They do not want to answer my questions. Today viewers want to know whether Arnab Goswami is a coward or a nationalist? Arnab, this is national interest. I am a part of the piecemeal Narrative. Take on the enemies of the country. You prove that the country is in safe hands. You should fight against those Rahul Gandhi whom I support. Are you sneaky Are you a journalist?

In this video, Kunal Kamra says, “I am waiting for your reply. I want to talk to you kindly. But you are not worthy of my tenderness. They are not for you. This is for Rohit Vemula’s mother, whose caste you discussed in the show. I know that I should not do this and I can go to jail for this. But this is for Rohit Vemula’s mother. Go and take the time to read Rohit Vemula’s 10-page suicide letter. Then maybe you can awaken emotions and you can become a human being. ‘’

After sharing these videos of Kunal, Arnab Goswami and Kunal Kamra started trending on Twitter.

After this, Kunal also released his statement on Twitter.

Kunal wrote, “Today I met Arnab Goswami on a flight to Lucknow. I lovingly asked him to talk to me. First, they were presented as if they were on a phone call. I waited for the phone call to be completed. Till then instructions were not given to place seat belts. I kept my opinion on what I think about Arnab’s journalism. They refuse to answer any of my questions. ‘’

Kunal said in his tweet, “After the flight takeoff and the seat belt sign off again I went to Arnab again.” Arnab said that he is watching something and does not want to talk. Then I did what Republic TV journalists do with people. I have no regrets. After returning to the seat, I apologized to the crew members and the pilot for the trouble they caused me. “

Some people are appreciating this act of Kunal on social media.

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor wrote on this sentence, “There are many words that Arnab uses to

threaten innocents, victims.” He does this in a higher,

steeper voice than Kunal Kamra heard in the video.

Kunal Kamra made this video in flight. Is it a violation of rules? Jeetendra Bhargava, former executive director of the state-run airline Air India, says that it is illegal to make videos inside the aircraft.

He explains, “It is not the case that the person is Arnab Goswami, someone else.” He is only a passenger for the airline and it is the responsibility of the company not to violate his privacy. This is completely illegal. ‘’

Jitendra Bhargava said, “Taking photographs and making videos inside the aircraft in this way is a violation of the privacy of the passengers and the company can take action on it. The company can also be questioned, why did they not stop the person from making videos by doing so? ‘’

Originally published at https://www.mubahisa.in.

--

--

No responses yet