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Bansal 'threatens' scribe, press club seeks
apology
Sunday May 12, 2013 10:21:52 PM,
IANS
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Chandigarh:
Disgraced former railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal Sunday had a
brush with the media here, barely hours after returning from New
Delhi where he quit from the union cabinet. The city press club
has sought an apology from him.
Bansal got furious when a media person asked him about the
companies owned by his family.
"I am not here to give you the definition of my family. You come
inside and I will tell you," Bansal told the media person. Bansal
was interacting with the media briefly after his arrival here.
Following this, the Chandigarh Press Club issued a statement,
objecting to the remarks made by Bansal, who is the Chandigarh MP.
"He (media person) has virtually been threatened by Pawan Kumar
Bansal at his residence in Chandigarh. The Chandigarh Press Club
has taken a serious note of this and it is highly unbecoming of a
person of Mr Bansal's stature to intimidate a journalist on duty.
The press club demands an unconditional apology from Mr Bansal,"
the statement said.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Satya Pal Jain also sought an
"unqualified apology" from Bansal, while criticising the "highly
derogatory and threatening language" used by the former railway
minister with the media.
"Bansal himself is responsible for whatever has come in the media
during the last few days about the railways job scam and the
situation in which the former railway minister finds himself
today," he said.
Leaders of the Congress had gathered at Bansal's residence to show
solidarity with him. He told party leaders that he had nothing to
do with the bribery scam involving his relatives.
Bansal drove into Chandigarh Saturday from New Delhi with
virtually no leaders and relatives being present at his house to
receive him.
He was forced to quit as railway minister Friday after a bribery
controversy surrounding his nephew Vijay Singla.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Singla May 3
and recovered Rs.90 lakh from him which was allegedly paid to him
by a senior railway officer to get a lucrative posting. This was
followed by other exposures that Bansal allegedly used his
official status to benefit close relatives and associates.
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