India Post Released Stamp on Durgaprasad Chaudhary

India Post has today issued a commemorative postage stamp on freedom fighter and journalist Capt.Durga Prasad Chaudhary.Stamp was released at Ajmer in a grand function.Minister of State for IT Sachin Pilot released this stamp.Minister of state for tribal affairs Mahadeo Singh Khandela ,Energy Minister Dr.Jitendra Singh and MOS education Rajasthan Naseem Akhtar Insaf were also present in the function.Chaudhary was the founder editor of Rajasthan’s leading daily newspaper Dainik Navjyoti.Stamp release function will be held at Ajmer.Dainik Navajyoti was started on 2nd oct, 1936 on the birth date of Mahatma Gandhi.  Presently it is publishing from Jaipur, Ajmer, Jodhpur & Kota covering Rajasthan.This year Dainik Navajyoti has completed its 75 years from the establishment. Dainik Navajyoti has been an example of truthfulness & independent journalism. The Navajyoti heralded the age of renaissance in politico – socio- economic sphere in Rajputana. Imagine the hardships under which the journalists had to work & carry forward the flame of freedom. Reading a newspaper was sedition ‘Rajdroh’ in that era in Rajputana. On 2nd October, 1936, the Rajasthan Sevak Mandal started the weekly ‘Navajyoti’. Shri Ram Narayan Chaudhary was its publisher. Right from the beginning, Durga Prasad Ji worked for Navajyoti. It was the only paper in Rajputana which exposed the tyrannical nature of feudal lords & which aroused the national emotions. From ‘Quit India Movement’ of 1942, the paper was suspended due to the repressive policy of the Government. When it is resumed publication in 1945 it faced the greatest ever financial crunches but from 1948 ‘Navajyoti’ became the daily newspaper from weekly.

Source : http://philamirror.info, August 1, 2012