Railway bribe case: Congress core group to meet at PM's residence
Hit by another controversy, top Congress leaders are meeting in New Delhi on Saturday evening to deliberate on the fallout of the arrest of railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew in a bribery case.
New Delhi: Hit by another controversy, top Congress leaders are meeting in New Delhi on Saturday evening to deliberate on the fallout of the arrest of railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew in a bribery case.
The Congress core group, chaired by party chief Sonia Gandhi, is scheduled to meet at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence at 4:30pm.Besides Gandhi and Singh, senior leaders Ahmad Patel, AK Antony, Sushilkumar Shinde and P Chidambaram are members of the Congress core group.Bansal's nephew V Singla was on Friday arrested by CBI, which also held a member of the railway board in connection with alleged bribery of Rs. 90 lakh for fixing a top-level position in the government.Kumar was arrested in Mumbai by a CBI team soon after he had flown in from Delhi. CBI has registered a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act and the IPC against him.PTI
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