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Proud to be associated with National Herald, govt agencies distorting facts: Congress

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 5/12/2017 11:45:07 PM

"We are proud to be associated with the Newspaper which stood up for free speech in the Colonial period," Singhvi said.

Hours after the Delhi High Court allowed income tax proceedings against Young Indian Private Limited in the National Herald case, involving Congress President Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi, senior advocate and Congress national spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi asserted that the grand-old party was proud to be associated with the National Herald and that media was misrepresenting facts. “We are proud to be associated with the Newspaper which stood up for free speech in the Colonial period,” Singhvi said, while addressing a press conference at the Congress headquarters.
Singhvi, who appeared for the firm, said it was a sorry state that government agencies via proxy were engaging in incomplete and distorted information. “The amount of misinformation going on with regards to Young Indian/National Herald, makes me wonder does the Govt have anything better to do in this country than to circulate unsigned notes which are actually campaigns of misinformation and distortion,” he said.