Senior Aaj Tak journalist passes away due to Covid
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in
Rohit Sardana, popular news anchor at Aaj Tak, has passed away on Friday. He had tested positive for the Coronavirus and suffered a heart attack on Friday morning.
Condolence is pouring in from across the board over the passing away of Rohit Sardana. People are shocked upon hearing the news.
From March 2002 to July 2003, Sardana worked as a copy-editor. As a trainee copy-editor, Sardana was exposed to the technicalities of anchoring, copywriting, editing, production and post-production work. Along with learning these skills, Sardana studied the functioning of a 24-hour news channel. Sardana worked as an assistant producer at Sahara Samay from 2003 to 2004.
Since 2004, Sardana was with Zee News in the capacity of an executive editor, anchor, news presenter and host for the network’s Hindi language programmes. He was a senior anchor at Aaj Tak. Sardana formerly worked with the ETV Network and Akashvani. He hosted a show called Dangal on Aaj Tak which featured debate panels. The show has been compared to Radio Rwanda and he had been accused of demonising Muslims, encouraging jingoism and strengthening the Hindu-Muslim binary through his show.
Sardana formerly produced Karmakshetra, among the first Hindi-language news programmes whose primary objective was reporting, for an Indian audience, the state of political accountability in India. The programme question-answer format focuses on Members of Parliament (MP) with Sardana variously challenging and questioning the MP’s using a detailed report of their work. The final segment of the programme culminates with a detailed “report card” on the work of the MP’s for their respective constituency in advance of the 2014 Indian general elections.
April 30,2021
