Chhattisgarh CM visits National Herald office in Herald House

Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel on Saturday visited the National Herald office to express his solidarity with the legacy media house. National Herald was founded by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1938 with the blessings of Mahatma Gandhi.

He invited National Herald and Navjivan to launch editions from Chhattisgarh.

The chief minister interacted with the staff and said that he would stand by journalists who are fighting an ideological battle against fascist forces. The country needed an alternative to hate, intolerance and vendetta propagated by people in power, he said.

He was presented with copies of the newspapers, National Herald on Sunday and Navjivan by Group Editorial Advisor Mrinal Pande and Editor-in-Chief Zafar Agha. Navjivan’s commemorative volume on Mahatma Gandhi published on the occasion of 150th anniversary of his birth was also handed over to the chief minister.

Credit for the landslide victory of the Congress in the assembly election in Chhattisgarh is largely attributed to Shri Baghel, who undertook padayatras across the state to take on the money power of the BJP and the RSS. He built the organisation from scratch and contrary to most poll predictions, led the party to a two-thirds majority in the Assembly.

Shri Baghel recalled that following the demolition of the Babri mosque way back in 1992, he as the Youth Congress president in Madhya Pradesh had walked across the state for 300 Kms to ensure peace and communal harmony.