Journalist Rakshit Singh faced many questions and allegations after he publicly quit his job at a farmers' protest. He explains why he did so even with EMIs to pay.
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00:00But in today's date, what kind of an overall media environment has been created?
00:04I don't need to tell you this, you all know it.
00:06In all the channels where the slogans of Murdabad and Godi media are used,
00:13I can't live in that environment, I can't be a part of that environment.
00:24Friends, Namaskar. I am Rakshit Singh.
00:28Many of you must be watching my video today.
00:32There are many things and talks about it.
00:36What I said on that stage, how some people are interpreting it,
00:42some are misinterpreting it, some are talking about my organization,
00:48some are talking about my future planning.
00:51There are many such questions, so I want to clarify those questions here.
00:57First of all, my organization, where I work,
01:02what I said there,
01:06it is overall pinpointed towards any one institution,
01:10not towards a single organization or a single channel.
01:16It is for everyone.
01:17The overall environment that has been created at this time,
01:25now you will say that you are trying to change the topic.
01:30It is not like that.
01:31I will tell you my mental state,
01:35how it has been for the last 2-3-4 months.
01:39When news channels used to go for coverage,
01:42before now, they used to be respected.
01:47A big reason behind choosing this profession was the same respect.
01:53When I did a journalism course,
01:56seeing that respect,
01:58I decided to choose this profession and chose this profession.
02:05That respect has disappeared in today's date.
02:08We go into the field,
02:10many times situations, all the organizations,
02:13in front of their reporters,
02:15these situations arise that they have to remove their ID.
02:20Channels, where the slogans of Murdabad are used,
02:25the slogans of Godi Media are used,
02:27then how will the work be done in this situation?
02:31I could not do it.
02:34I could not do that work.
02:36I tolerated it as long as I could.
02:39I work in a media organization.
02:41I have worked in media organizations before this.
02:44The kind of work I did in the last 10-12 years,
02:48I was personally very satisfied with that.
02:52I was very happy.
02:53Yes, the news that I do,
02:55apart from doing a little bit of right and left,
02:58everything else goes in the same way.
03:00But in today's date,
03:01what has the overall media environment become?
03:04I don't need to tell you this.
03:05You all know.
03:06I cannot live in that environment.
03:10I cannot be a part of that environment.
03:13That is why I took this step.
03:15Now the second question comes,
03:18why not there?
03:19Why not there?
03:20Why not on that border?
03:21Why not on that border?
03:22There are all kinds of questions like this.
03:24So where I have gone to cover,
03:26where I have been told to cover,
03:29it is obvious that if I take this step,
03:31it will be taken there.
03:34Maybe I got the answer to this question.
03:37Now after this, a third aspect comes.
03:41Will you become a politician?
03:43Will you become a MLA?
03:46Brother, I know journalism,
03:50which I have done in the last 14-15 years.
03:53And maybe I would like to do the same journalism in the future.
03:59Not against anyone,
04:00not biased against anyone,
04:02not against anyone,
04:03not in opposition to any government,
04:05not in favor of anyone.
04:07But the facts,
04:09the ground reality,
04:10what is visible with the eyes,
04:11what people are saying,
04:12what people are saying,
04:14I will report that.
04:16And that is what I want to report.
04:17And that is journalism.
04:20Taking anyone's side,
04:22whether it is any party,
04:25any party,
04:26that is not my job.
04:27If I see anything wrong happening in the farmer's movement,
04:31then it is obvious that I will report that too.
04:38Facts are reported.
04:40This is our job.
04:41Making an opinion is not my job.
04:43Opinion is made by the public.
04:46Viewers make it.
04:47Readers make it.
04:49Making an opinion is not my job.
04:51Now comes the third question.
04:53What will you do in the future?
04:56Brother, I am a middle class man.
04:59I also have the burden of EMI.
05:01I have a small two-room house.
05:04I have to pay EMI for that too.
05:06If I can't pay,
05:07then after 2-3 months,
05:08it will be 4 feet.
05:10I have a car.
05:12I have to pay EMI for that too.
05:14If I can't pay that,
05:16then they will take that too.
05:18In such a situation,
05:19you tell me yourself,
05:20what is the alternative in front of me?
05:23The alternative is that
05:24the work that I know,
05:26the work that I have been doing for 15-14 years,
05:29I will do that work.
05:31I don't have any agenda other than this.
05:34I don't have any hatred for anyone.
05:40No, whatever it is,
05:41it is my own decision.
05:43What do I have to do?
05:45I didn't want to be a part of this system.
05:52Now I was not able to continue beyond this.
05:54So what do I do?
05:55What is the alternative in front of me?
05:57I can leave it.
05:59I left it.
06:00Now according to me,
06:01there is no scope to put if and but in this.
06:04I have clarified almost everything.
06:06If there are any other questions,
06:08I will clarify that too.
06:09But in general,
06:10I have to say that
06:11the work that I have been doing,
06:13I only know that work.
06:15Other than this,
06:16I don't know any other work.
06:17Neither can I do business,
06:18that I have money,
06:19I can do business.
06:20Nor can I do politics,
06:22that I have a lot of experience in politics,
06:25I can do that.
06:26Or I can become a very big mass leader.
06:29Or I can create a very big movement.
06:32No.
06:33With my inner voice,
06:37in today's date,
06:38only my profession,
06:40that work,
06:41that talent,
06:42which I know,
06:43in which I have taken experience,
06:45which is by choice,
06:46not by force.
06:48I will continue that only.