National Herald: Paper to be relaunched by AJL
The decision to relaunch the papers came on Thursday in an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) under the leadership of All India Congress Committee (AICC) treasurer Moti Lal Vora, Hindustan Times reported.
Vora was quoted by the daily as saying, "These decisions of the members of the company are in pursuance to the revival plan of the company since 2010 which includes conversion of the company to not-for-profit and re-launching the newspapers."
"AJL was founded by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in November 1937. The company and the newspapers it published, namely the National Herald, Quami Awaj and Navjivan, played an important role as the voice of freedom movement and functioned historically in the public interest and for social good. This decision of the EGM in essence formalizes this larger purpose for which the company was founded in the first place."
The company is also going to be renamed, with a possible name The Associated Journals, reports stated.
Earlier in 2015, Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi and Vice-President Rahul Gandhi were involved in a fund misplacement fiasco involving the National Herald. After much drama which saw several Parliament sessions disrupted by the Congress MP's, the Gandhi's were granted relief by the court.
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