‘A matter of time’ before action on two Ministers

The Congress has always disliked being made to act under opposition pressure, but on Thursday the word emanating from the party was that it knew the cases of Union Ministers Ashwani Kumar and Pawan Kumar Bansal would have to be dealt with sooner rather than later: it was now “just a matter of time,” a senior party functionary said. A day after the party swept the polls in Karnataka, and as the euphoria of victory died down, the top leadership focussed attention once again on the fates of the two Ministers, even as Mr. Kumar’s presence and Mr. Bansal’s absence at Thursday’s Cabinet meeting told its own story.

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