August 22, 2026 04:14 am (IST)
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Robert Vadra loses cools, pushes away reporter's mic
New Delhi, Nov 2 (IBNS): Industrialist and Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra on Saturday lost his cool and pushed away a reporter's microphone when the later asked him about his alleged involvement in the Haryana land deal scam.
On being asked about the scam by an ANI reporter at an event, Vadra did not merely refuse to answer but he kept on asking: "Are you serious? Are you serious? Are you nuts? What is wrong with you?"
He then also shoved the journalist's mic in anger.
In a clip, Vadra and his security officers were also heard threatening the video journalist to turn the camera off.
Reacting to his action, ANI Editor-in-chief Smita Prakash told CNN-IBN channel that Vadra had asked his security guard to ensure that the video clip was deleted immediately.
"Our reporter was pressured to delete the clip. That is when we entered the scene and refused to delete it," Smita added.
After being severely criticised for his actions, Vadra's office also issued a clarification, stating that: "It was a private event and media was not to be there and he thought it's the private internal photographer asking him questions. He never knew it was ANI."
However, the ANI editor has refuted the claims that Vadra was unaware that the man questioning him was an ANI reporter.
"It is there in the visual where you can clearly see the ANI microphone logo. I don't know how he didn't see this. The lights weren't that strong that it blurred the logo. He can see it himself. He knows it is ANI. So if he says he was not aware of it, then I don't buy that argument," Smita told CNN-IBN.
The Broadcast Editors' Association has also asked Vadra to apologise for his action.
Vadra had landed himself in controversy after senior government official Ashok Khemka accused him of having falsified documents for a land deal.
Khemka has reportedly told the Haryana government that Vadra falsified documents for 3.53 acres of land at Shikohpur village in Haryana's Gurgaon district.
Vadra used false registration documents to execute a series of sham transactions for the sale of the land in Gurgaon to real estate giant DLF for Rs 58 crores, Khema had claimed.
Khemka also apparently claimed that as per his calculations, through his irregularities and favours earned from the Haryana government, Vadra might have pocketed a whopping Rs 3.5 lakh crores.
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