TRIBUNE STORY PROVES MODI WRONG,SAYS NEHRU HAD MET REVOLUTIONARIES IN JAIL

Chandigarh, May 13, 2018: The reports in The Tribune archives showed that the Congress was at the forefront of the campaign to defend Bhagat Singh and his comrades and the Bhagat Singh Defence Committee to provide legal and financial aid to the revolutionaries was set up on the initiative of Congress leaders in Punjab, reported The Tribune, the Chandigarh-based leading English newspaper in its May 13, 2018 edition.

The startling revelation made in The Tribune story came in the backdrop of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech at a rally in Bidar, Karnataka, in which he had sought to know from the people if any Congress leader had visited the revolutionaries in prison. The Tribune, quoted from its archives to set the record straight. The paper had covered the trial in the Lahore conspiracy case, standing by the revolutionaries.

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