Sonia forces PM to sack Bansal, Ashwani

May 10, 2013 23:02

CNN-IBN reports: Law Minister Ashwani Kumar has also been sacked. Earlier, in the day Pawan Kumar stepped down as the railway minister.

The two submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Sources say that the two ministers resigned after Congress President Sonia met Dr Singh and asked him to force the two to put in their papers.

The law minister is under fire for asking to vet a Central Bureau of Investigation report on its coal investigation before it was submitted to the Supreme Court, while the railway minister is caught in a controversy involving his nephew, who is under arrest for allegedly accepting bribe to organise a plum posting in the Railways.

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