After busting a major fraud of manipulating TRP (Television Rating Point) data, Mumbai Police on Friday issued a summons to Republic TV's Chief Financial Officer.
The channel's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, however, hit back at Mumbai Police saying it was an attempt to target the channel for its coverage of the Maharashtra government and also threatened to slap a criminal defamation case against Commissioner of Police Param Bir Singh.
Amid this, a clip of from Goswami's 'Poochta Hai Bharat' show is leaving Tweeple in splits. In the video, the senior journalist is seen goofing up the lines of Bismil Azimabadi's Urdu patriotic poem, 'Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna'.
Republic TV's Editor-in-Chief is heard saying, "Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dil men hai,
After the video was shared on the micro-blogging site, here's how Twitter reacted:
Dekhna hai zor kitna kaatil baazu-e-dil men hai."
The original lines by Bismil are: "Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dil men hai,
Dekhna hai zor kitna baazu-e-kaatil men hai."
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