New Delhi. Senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has given her stand on the National Herald issue in her book 'Belonging: A Journey of Love'. This book was published on 10 November. In her comments on 11 November, Sonia Gandhi said that neither she nor Rahul Gandhi got any financial benefit from the process of relaunching National Herald.
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According to Sonia Gandhi, the advice of accounting and legal experts was taken to restart the newspaper in 2010. For this, a non-profit organization i.e. Not-for-Profit structure was used. He claims that in this arrangement no director or shareholder was allowed to take personal financial advantage.
What is the whole controversy?
Let us tell you that National Herald newspaper was started by Jawaharlal Nehru from Lucknow in the year 1938. The name of the company that published it was Associated Journals Limited. This controversy came to light when Associated Journals Limited was reported to have a debt of about Rs 90 crore to the Congress Party and a company named 'Young Indian' was formed in the year 2010. The Enforcement Directorate alleges that Young Indian acquired the rights related to this loan for Rs 50 lakh and through this gained control over the assets of Associated Journals Limited worth thousands of crores. The agency has described it as a case related to money laundering and conspiracy.
However, Sonia and Rahul Gandhi have been rejecting these allegations. Sonia has also targeted BJP and RSS in her book. He alleged that opposition leaders are put under pressure through legal cases and an environment is created to consider them guilty even before they are proven guilty.
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Most important legal aspects
Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court had refused to take cognizance of the Enforcement Directorate's prosecution complaint in December 2025. The court's basis was that the legal process required for that complaint had not been completed. But the court did not give a final verdict on the merits of the allegations. ED i.e. Enforcement Directorate challenged this order in Delhi High Court. According to the report today i.e. October 12, 2026, the High Court had refused to grant interim relief to the ED and the matter was to be heard further. That means that order of the court cannot be called a final acquittal of all the charges against Sonia and Rahul Gandhi.