AGARTALA, Dec 19 (TIWN): Along with the nation Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee on Saturday staged a massive protest against National Herald case over Congress President and Vice-President claiming it to be a false accusation by the NDA led BJP.

Protesting in front of the All India Radio, the Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee leaders claims that the NDA led Bharatiya Janta party is raising false accusation against Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice-President Rahul Gandhi.

Reportedly, the congress supporters has walked across the capital 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.

However, raising voice against the accusation, along with Tripura supporters in various parts of the state are staging protest.

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 Congress party raised voice against the accusation made by the NDA led Bharatiya Janta Party Government. Besides, they also mentioned that the accusation is false.