Newspaper helped Telangana govt by publishing fake news, claims ex-employee

Vikram Sharma, the Assistant Resident Editor of the Telangana bureau of The New Indian Express has resigned after allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced against his boss GS Vasu, the editor-in-chief. Though some of the women who worked with TNIE earlier, often used to discuss, though in hush-hush tones, about your stares which made them uncomfortable, I never imagined that you would be accused of going as far as trying to touch women colleagues or do whatever they accused you of.” He added, “But that being so, when you took the ‘help’ of a woman colleague in Hyderabad office to post something in your support and she did, I lost all the respect I had for you. He wrote, “I do not know if you are aware but many journalists here talk about you becoming the unofficial advisor to the Chief Minister KCR, his son KTR and daughter Kavitha and therefore TNIE going out of the way to help them.” Sharma also said that the TNIE published fake news to help K Chandrashekar Rao. He said, “I know it is election time and TNIE is going all out in doing its bit to support TRS though I’m glad that Express is not the largest circulated daily otherwise the falsehood we have been publishing for the last four an a half years would have reached far and wide.” The allegations of sexual misconduct against the Editor-in-chief of TNIE is not the only grave accusation being levelled against him.