As a part of relaunching the newspaper National Herald, Vice President Hamid Ansari and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday released a commemorative edition of the newspaper in Bengaluru to celebrate the 70years of India’s independence.
President Pranab Mukherjee will officially launch the weekly newspaper on June 20 in New Delhi. The paper will be published from the national capital.
Rahul Gandhi said that while the government is forcing everyone into silence, National Herald has a spirit and it won’t be silenced. He asserted that the weekly should speak the truth and asked the editors to criticise the Congress party when required.
The National Herald which shut its operations due to financial constraints in 2009 was launched in Lucknow by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in 1938. The newspaper was in controversy after BJP leader Subramanian Swamy accused Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi of conspiracy and cheating in 2012 with the objective of acquiring the assets owned by the newspaper. The newspaper’s online edition has been functional since November2016.
