Congress may sack Ashwani Kumar

India News: Law Minister Ashwani Kumar and Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal are skating on thin ice, with the Congress leadership, which had been resisting calls for their ouster, veering to the view that their continuance will blight the afterglow of the party's election victory in Karnataka.


The removal of the two ministers is imminent, a senior minister told ET, explaining that the positions of Kumar and Bansal have been rendered untenable after the Supreme Court's damning observations on the conduct of the scandal-scarred government in the coalfield allocation probe and the reports on the alleged influence-peddling in the railway ministry.