Mourning the demise of senior television journalist, Rohit Sardana, Union Home Minister Amit Shah stated, the nation has lost a brave journalist who always stood up for unbiased and fair reporting. Sardana, one of the top anchors of Hindi news channel Aaj Tak, passed away on Friday. Sardana was a recipient of the 2018 Ganesh Vidyarthi Puraskar Award. He was among the most popular faces of TV news journalism in India. Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala in a tweet said, "Deeply saddened and shocked to hear about the demise of Aaj Tak journalist Rohit Sardana. It's simply unbelievable.
Rohit had recovered from Covid-19 and was back at work. My heartfelt condolences to the family members and Aaj Tak group."Congress spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill also took to Twitter and wrote, "Completely shocked on hearing the news about passing away of my dear friend Rohit Sardana - spoke to him last Sunday and he was in great spirits!! Still can't come to terms with this - will forever cherish our after debate conversations, rest in peace "bhaji"." He left Zee News to join Aaj Tak in 2017. In 2018, Rohit Sardana was awarded the Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Puraskar by the Government of India. Rohit Sardana had tested COVID-19 positive on April 24 and suffered a heart attack on Friday morning. The media personality had tweeted that his RT-PCR test report was negative but CT-scan detected covid infection in his lungs.