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A video of journalist Rajdeep Sardesai is making rounds on social media and he is facing the heat for the remarks that he is heard making in the now viral video. Sardesai who was a speaker in the 200th episode of The Lallantop’s show “Neta Nagari Mahotsav '' ranted against the Indian middle class and scientific community, labelling them the most communal sections of the society. The part of the video going viral has received quite a backlash.

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00:00 A video of journalist Rajdeep Sardesai is making rounds in social media and he is facing

00:05 the heat for the remarks that he is heard making in the now viral video.

00:09 Sardesai, who was the speaker in the 200th episode of the Lallan Tops show Neta Nagri

00:14 Mahotsav, ranted against the Indian middle class and scientific community, labelling

00:19 them the most communal sections of the society.

00:23 So what exactly happened?

00:25 A student in the audience of the show asked about what could be a solution for curbing

00:29 the transition from being religious to becoming communal.

00:32 While anchor Sourabh Biveri said that rationality can be the solution, Rajdeep Sardesai intervened

00:37 to speak a bitter truth.

00:39 While speaking out his bitter truth, Rajdeep launched an attack against the middle class,

00:43 blaming them for the weakening of the political left as they have become highly communal and

00:47 selfish in the past 30 years.

00:54 The truth is that in the middle class of our country in the past 30 years, someone was

00:58 asking about the political left and why it got weakened.

01:01 It is because the middle class only takes its self-interest into consideration while

01:05 moving ahead.

01:06 This middle class has become the most communal in this country.

01:08 The poor are never communal in this country.

01:10 The poor Hindu Muslim need each other more, Rajdeep said.

01:14 Sardesai further asserted that it is when the poor gain financial stability and become

01:17 middle class that they start turning their religious identity into a communal one.

01:21 The journalist also claimed that a section of scientists are the most communal minds

01:25 in the country.

01:26 Some of the most communal minds in the country have been scientists.

01:30 The part of the video going viral has received quite a backlash.

01:33 Sardesai took to X and issued a clarification on the same and urged the people to watch

01:37 the entire video before jumping to conclusions.

01:40 He wrote, "I wish the people would see the entire 200th episode of Neta Daghari on the

01:45 Lallan Top before making comments on short clips.

01:48 India's middle class is wonderfully aspirational, hardworking, resourceful and will drive India

01:52 forward in the next century.

01:54 It is our growth engine.

01:55 However, a section of it has also got tied up in communal prison.

01:59 I was not seeking to generalize.

02:01 If it appeared that way, I apologize.

02:04 Great nations are built on bridge builders and not divisiveness.

02:07 We, Hindu Muslims, all communities, need to reflect and move forward.

02:12 Together as one India."

02:13 - Sardesai

02:14 END

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