AMN / NEW DELHI
Union Minister M J Akbar, who has been facing allegation of sexual harassment, returned to India on Sunday morning.
“There will be a statement later on,” Akbar told reporters in his first remarks on the controversy as he made his way out of the Delhi airport.
Akbar, the Minister of State for External Affairs, was on an official trip to Nigeria when his name surfaced in the #MeToo campaign earlier last week. Multiple women, mostly journalists, have claimed they were sexually harassed by Akbar during his stint as editor. Several Opposition parties, including the Congress, have called for Akbar’s resignation.
While the Bharatiya Janata Party has maintained a studied silence on the matter so far, many in the party believe that the charges against him are serious.