After several media houses yesterday reported that Ravi Prakash was ousted from TV9, within few hours, the senior journalist from TV9 live itself, has declared boldly that he is in the channel and has not been arrested.
But shockingly, the fresh team of the channel has announced that they removed Ravi Prakash and MKVN Murthy from TV9, alleging that they had few malafide intentions.
Reportedly, Associated Broadcasting Company Limited (ABCL) has also appointed new CEO and COO. The company directors have met earlier in the day and finalised Mahendra Mishra as the CEO and Singa Rao as new Chief Operating officer (COO). Below is the official press note, released from the TV9 management.
Meanwhile, Ravi Prakash came up with a different version. He claimed that he was ‘arm twisted’ by ‘Forced In’ management and so had to resign as CEO of TV9. Below is the resignation letter of Ravi Prakash.
10th May 2019
6:00 PM IST
To
The Board of Directors,
Associated Broadcasting Company Private Limited (ABCL),
# 97, Road # 3, Banjara Hills,
Hyderabad 500 034 Telangana.
Sub: Resignation to the position of CEO of TV9 Group of Channels owing to MALICIOUS ARM TWISTING, MISREPRESENTED & FALSIFIED Cases – REG
Dear Members of the ‘FORCED IN’ Board,
I, Ravi Prakash, the Founder & Chairman of TV9 Group of Channels, with great adieu wish to put on the following points before a simple line of RESIGNATION.
– You are representatives of political honchos who are out there to devour ‘EVERY’ journalist and independent media house today.
– You have not only threatened a professional ‘Company Secretary’ to falsely lodge a complaint on ABCL & its ‘Existing’ directors.
– You, with the support of a few members at the Registrar of Companies to enter ABCL as directors from the backdoor & take illegal control.
– You have ensued to file false complaints since I chose to be treated as a ‘JOURNALIST’ who created one of the most profitable media groups in the country today.
– You have not stopped even at pushing the Telangana Police which was at your disposal to try & achieve your goal of tarnishing my unscathed image, thereby in an effort to make TV9 another political mouth piece.
– You have violated stringent orders of the Honorable National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) restraining the company to alienate its shares or assets of the company in collusion with the earlier promoter Mr. Srinivasa Raju of iLabs.
– You are representatives of Political ‘BUSINESS’ Houses, which are purely bent of illegal, pretentious & hostile ways of ruining Independent Media Houses to your benefit.
– You are members of ‘Alanda Media & Entertainments Private Limited’ which now has investments in businesses of the same order, surprisingly which do not come under the Competition Commission of India scanner.
– You have not stopped at using your existing mouth piece television channels to make scathing attacks on me while saying I have been absconding. While, I went on AIR yesterday evening to clear the air about such remarks, with due respect to the Honorable Courts of this country, I did not take any names.
– You have stooped down the level of hounding, harassing & ill-treating my colleagues purely for the sake of ‘FORCEFUL’ takeover of the company.
– You will continue to see me as a fellow shareholder & legal owner of my share of the company in the courts of law.
Hoping that the independent journalism I sowed will continue to flourish and work for the society, as always.
I remain,
RP