National Herald and ‘red flags’: When a UP CM from 1960s questioned funding of ‘Nehru mouthpiece’ | Political Pulse News,The Indian Express
Probe into fund collection for the newspaper would result in a ‘big exposé’, Chandra Bhanu Gupta wrote in his memoir published last year.
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National Herald and ‘red flags’: When a UP CM from 1960s questioned funding of ‘Nehru mouthpiece’
Probe into fund collection for the newspaper would result in a ‘big exposé’, Chandra Bhanu Gupta wrote in his memoir published last year.
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New Delhi | Updated: September 3, 2022 10:24:57 am
Chandra Bhanu Gupta. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Adatsy)Congress leaders Sonia and Rahul Gandhi are under the scanner of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a money laundering probe related to the National Herald newspaper. The ED case is based on a trial court order that allowed the Income Tax Department to probe the affairs of the National Herald and conduct a tax assessment of Sonia and Rahul. The order was based on a petition BJP leader Subramanian Swamy filed in 2013.
But it was not the first time that questions were raised about the funding of the Herald, a newspaper India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru founded in 1938. One of Nehru’s party colleagues, Chandra Bhanu Gupta, alleged that the paper, for which he and others collected money, became a mouthpiece of the PM and, later, his daughter Indira Gandhi.
Gupta, a four-time CM who was considered one of the party’s top fund-raisers in north India in the Nehru years, wrote in his memoir Safar Kahin Ruka Nahin, Jhuka Nahin (Journey did not stop anywhere, did not bend), “I am surprised that National Herald is now considered as a property of the Nehru family. If there is some investigation by an inquiry commission into how funds were collected for National Herald, there will be a big exposé. From the very beginning, the policy of the National Herald was to promote Nehru and his daughter. For it, freedom of the press meant attacking whoever criticised the wrong policies of the Nehru family.”
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The book was published last year by Naman Prakashan in Lucknow, four decades after Gupta’s death.
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