Why Modi bhakts are making #ShutDownNDTV trend on Twitter

Indian television news channel, NDTV is getting lambasted on Twitter.

Reason: They are supposedly adopting an "anti-national" perspective. Well, that's what the BJP supporters would like to believe. Modi supporters have been lashing out at the TV channel for allegedly spreading "misleading news about the government". In one instance, the consulting editor Barkha Dutt has been advised to go to Pakistan whereas prime time anchor of NDTV India and one of the most respected journalists in Hindi, Ravish Kumar, has been urged to change his name to "Maulana Ravish Kumar".

Twitterati highlighted that NDTV's coverage of Pathankot was misleading where Barkha Dutt pointed out there could have been more than six militants entering the Air Force base. Besides, she was also trashed for her new book, This Unquiet Land: The Stories Beneath India’s Fault Lines, where she claimed that Modi-Nawaz met for nearly an hour "secretly" in Kathmandu during the SAARC summit, which according to the ministry of external affairs, is not a confirmed statement.

Many called for the ban on the channel

Bhakts Trending #ShutDownNDTV - The reality is your Leaders will happily go and give Interviews there and all u can do is sulk and whine

— Joy (@Joydas) January 5, 2016

NDTV is a news channel Or https://t.co/x9xbBh5XlG? Revised form of NDTV "Nai Dulhan Tere Vaaste" #ShutDownNDTV pic.twitter.com/bMMJxNf0mh

— Mahesh Vikram Hegde (@mvmeet) January 5, 2016

NSA Ajit doval highlighting the Anti National activities of NDTV in a letter to PMO. #ShutDownNDTV pic.twitter.com/KtLuzrIY3f

— हिन्दुस्तानी (@indiaaakash) January 5, 2016

Ndtv transmitted key army ops thrby assisting terrorists putting precious lives of our forces at risk #ShutDownNDTV pic.twitter.com/vfND2Nhhab

— Salute Armed Forces (@NaIna0806) January 5, 2016

रविश को अपना नाम मौलाना रविश रख लेना चाहिये । #ShutDownNDTV

— No_Bible (@No_Bible) January 5, 2016

While many claimed it's just a plain stupid call

After seeing this tag #ShutDownNDTV, People started watching NDTV to find out the reason. Today's TRP went up by 30%. Foolish Bhakts!

— Vinod Mehta (@DrunkVinodMehta) January 5, 2016

Poll: If BJP doesn't listen to Bhakts and #ShutDownNDTV, it will prove that BJP ..

— Joy (@Joydas) January 5, 2016