Ban on publication of ‘Daily Desher Katha’ ‘illegal, politically motivated and totally undemocratic’: Gautam Das

CPI (M) leader and former editor of party organ ‘Daily Desher Katha’, Gautam Das today termed the ban put on continued publication of the newspaper by the state government as ‘totally illegal, politically motivated and anti-democratic’.

Interacting with the media in the newspaper’s top-floor office today, Das said that the CPI (M) had a weekly newspaper titled ‘Desher Katha’ in the sixties and seventies but this was duly upgraded to a daily newspaper ‘Daily Desher Katha’ in 1979 by following all due procedures with himself as the editor .