To force Zee Media to remove its Assistant Producer Jagruti Shukla for her communal remarks on social media against Muslims, Dalits and Sikhs, a petition at change.org has attracted 2439 supporters.Petitions created on change.org have resulted in victories on many different issues so far and this time too, petitioner Deep Singh from United States of America is sure that Zee Media will initiate action against the Journalist who spews venom.Recently on Twitter under the hashtag UnitedAgainstTerror, Jagruti Shukla spewed venom against the people of Kashmir that attracted the attention of millions of users on social media including facebook, whatsapp and twitter who demanded action against her under law. However, there are few also who supported her views. On her Twitter handle she wrote: “If we need to commit genocide in Kashmir Valley to get rid of all these terrorists and their aides, then let us do it.” The post that invited mixed responses according to Kashmir based news agency CNS was shared by thousands across the world particularly in Kashmir Valley.
“Such individuals should not be part of any media house, or for that matter of fact any organization for they smack of political, religious and intellectual bias. I am amazed Zee News hasn't acted on their own,” responded Jaskrit Singh Nagra a netizen from Chandigarh India.A Kashmir based news page wrote that: “the problem with this tweet is not that she (Jagruti Shukla) openly endorses genocide. This is nothing new. We Kashmiris know inherently that the Indian collective conscience is satisfied by nothing less than Kashmiri blood. This lady is a journalist with Zee TV. Yes, Zee the nationalist puppy-mill which give their people a thing called news, and for those who want to pretend all is well.”Shukla according to petition has also hurt the sentiments of the Dalits and Sikhs as well. While responding to a Dalit she wrote: "U can say wteva (whatever) you like. I say that you are a Dalit apologist. And a backward regressive moron. No go clean toilets lol".As per the petitioner In 1984, thousands of Sikhs were brutally slaughtered in a government-orchestrated genocide.
Showing no shame for the untold loss of live, she blames the innocents for their own deaths, thus engaging in both genocide denial and tacit approval. On August 10, 2016 she wrote: "Sikhs deserved that. What do you expect when you breed hate? They killed Hindus for nothing. Although I don't support genocide."Many Muslims suffer ill-treatment in India, with the Gujarat massacre in 2002 being a more blatant manifestation. To a random twitter follower, after identifying his "Muslim-sounding" name, she engaged in vile Islamophobia. Jagruti Shukla wrote, "I read your name. No wonder you sympathize with those Terrorists. #SIMI #Bhopal By the way, which #Madarssa did you you go to? The education is evident lol". “We are calling on Zee Media to distance yourself from bigotry, casteism, Islamophobia, communalism and genocide and remove Jagrati Shukla,” read the online petition. Despite repeated attempts Noida based Zee office didn’t respond to phone calls.(CNS) (Photograph attached)