Sreenivasan Jain

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Sreenivasan Jain is an Indian journalist who is known for anchoring the weekly ground reportage show Truth vs Hype on NDTV 247.Jain started working at NDTV in 1995. From 2003 to 2008, he was NDTVs Mumbai bureau chief.In 2010, he was assigned the duties of Managing Editor of the business channel from the NDTV Group.In 2015, he became the Op-ed columnist for the Business Standard newspaper.In 2017, Jain took to Facebook and talked about NDTV removing a report by him and Manas Pratap Singh on loans given to Jay Shahs company during BJPs rule. In the post, he wrote, A week ago, a report by Manas Pratap Singh and me on loans given to Jay Shahs companies was taken down from NDTVs website. NDTVs lawyers said it needed to be removed for legal vetting. It has still not been restored. This is deeply unfortunate, since the report is based entirely on facts in the public domain and makes no unsubstantiated or unwarranted assertions. A situation like this presents journalists with hard choices. For now, I am treating this is as a distressing aberration and have decided to continue to do the journalism that I have always done on NDTV. All of this has been conveyed to NDTV..In 2018, he sent a legal notice to columnist Rajiv Mantri who commented on Janis father LC Jain. In a tweeter post, Mantri talked about the notice and said, I am shocked that a well-connected and powerful journalist like Sreenivasan Jain is threatening me, a common citizen, with legal consequences for expressing an opinion. I see this as an attempt to stifle my voice and silence me..In 2020, in an interview, businessman Rakesh Jhunjhunwala said that NDTV was blaming BJP without reason. In the interview, he said, I am a fan of Mr. Modi This is a well-known fact. As an Indian, I have a right to my political choices But, I find you prejudiced. I find NDTV prejudiced against the government..In 2021, he made a tweet claiming that Bharat Biotechs Covaxin was substandard. After his tweet, people started criticizing him and said that his tweets were misleading. Later, he apologized for the tweets and said, I did clarify that in subsequent Tweets but the initial Tweet could have been worded much better. I am deleting the original Tweet. For any confusion caused as a result, apologies..In 2022, he lent Rs. 50,000 for the bail of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair. Confirmation of Srinivasan Jain furnishing the bail surety of Rs. 50,000 for Muhammad Zubair.In February 2022, while he was reporting from UP during the state assembly elections, a girl in Uttar Pradesh, insulted Jian by telling him that she would vote for BJP, and she also schooled him about getting jobs in Uttar Pradesh. Later, NDTV deleted this video from its Twitter handle.