"The company has
appointed senior journalist Neelabh Mishra as Editorinchief 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
today. Without specifying the exact date when the newspapers plan to resume
publication, he said it would happen in coming months and will be followed by
reviving of Quami Awaz, its defunct Urdu newspaper.
Mishra had earlier been Editor of Outlook Hindu and has done
extensive work in areas of research and documentation including for the Right
to Information movement and legislation. Vora said the spirit of the
forthcoming publications of The Association Journals Limited, a not for profit
company, is captured by the tagline "Freedom is in peril, defend it with
your might". He said the publications shall seek to give voice to the
vision of Nehru and shall seek to occupy a liberal, progressive, secular space.
"They shall strive to represent the underrepresented and all those
deprived of voice, thereby promoting the ideals of a plural, democratic
party," he said.
Announcing the plans
of relaunching the newspaper last month, Vora had said the decision was taken
at an Extraordinary General Meeting of AJL in Lucknow in January and the
process is on. In the Lucknow meeting, the Associated Journals Limited (AJL)
had decided to convert into a notforprofit company and relaunch its
newspapers.
The decision had come in the midst of a legal battle over
its past, which has ensnared Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul.
The issue is pending in court.
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