KALYANPUR, December 19 (TIWN): Claiming the National Herald case against Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice-President Rahul Gandhi is false, Kalyanpur Block Congress Committee staged protest rally on Saturday in front of the Kalyanpur Post Office.

Reportedly, the congress supporters has walked across the city with the slogan that the case against Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice-President Rahul Gandhi by the BJP is false.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi's legal team is ready to whip out bail bonds when the two appear in court Saturday to honour summons issued by the court in the National Herald case.

However, Five other accused in the National Herald case have also been summoned taking cognisance of the complaint by BJP leader Dr Subramanian Swamy for alleged cheating and misappropriation of funds in taking control of the now-defunct National Herald newspaper.

Besides, all with the Tripura other state’s supporters gathered in various part of the nation in protests against the government, rallying support for party president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi.

Congress leader Kartik Debnath claimed that it is a trap by BJP to defame the Congress Party.

The National Herald was an Indian newspaper established in 1938 by Jawaharlal Nehru. The paper finally ceased operations in 2008.

The Indian Newspaper was initiated by Nehru at a time when he seemed unable to make an impact on the reactionary tendencies of the Congress Party it served as his mouthpiece allowing him to address and endorse unpopular stances that he would not have been able to defend as a politician through his editorial pieces for the paper.

While the paper suffered from financial troubles from the outset and was shut down briefly in the 1940s and 1970s, it finally ceased operations in 2008.

However, the Newspaper was first established in Lucknow in the year 1938.