The newly elected Congress government in Bombay led by its Prime Minister Bal Gangadhar Kher began targeting its political rivals. As most of ‘Agranee’s’ articles were anti-Congress and anti-Gandhi, the government of Bombay used their discretionary powers and stopped all advertisements to ‘Agranee’ and transferred them to ‘Lokshakti’, a Pune based ‘Pro-Congress’ newspaper. That day, Nathuram and Narayan realized that the Indian politicians were far more intolerant and venomous about their criticism than the British. Nathuram and Narayan found themselves helpless as there was nothing that they
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