After its leadership undergoing a protracted legal tussle in the National Heard case, the Congress on Wednesday announced the resumption of its mouthpiece National Herald which became defunct in 2008.
“The Associated Journals ltd, a company founded in 1937 by Pandit Jawaharalal Nehru, has taken steps to resume publication of its English and Hindi newspapers National Herald and Navjivan. The company has appointed senior journalist Neelabh Mishra as Editor-in-chief for its Hindi and English newspapers and digital properties with immediate effect,” Congress Treasurer Motilal Vora, who is also managing director of AJl limited, announced in a Press statement.
Without specifying the exact date when the newspapers plan to resume publication, Vora said it would happen in coming months and will be followed by reviving of Quami Awaz, its defunct Urdu newspaper.
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, who has also filed a private complaint in a local court, has accused top Congress leaders of misappropriation, a charge vehemently denied by the latter. Swamy has also written to Urban development Ministry demanding cancellation of land allotment and confiscation of properties to AJl for alleged violation of allotment conditions.
Both Sonia and Rahul along with five others were granted bail by the court on December 19, 2015 after they appeared in response to the summons.
The Enforcement Directorate has separately booked former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, officials of the AJl, publisher of the National Herald newspaper, and others on charges of alleged money laundering.