Mumbai Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam has got a reprieve with the party accepting his apology over the publication of controversial articles slamming Jawaharlal Nehru and terming Sonia Gandhi’s father a “fascist soldier” and asking him “to be careful in the future”.
“Sanjay Nirupam accepted the responsibility for publication of grossly inaccurate, baseless and malicious article against the Congress leadership in the party magazine ‘Congress Darshan’ and submitted his unconditional apology for the same.
“The Central Disciplinary Action Committee, while accepting his apology, cautioned him to be careful in the future while editing, printing and publishing materials in ‘Congress Darshan’ so that this type of grave mistake is not repeated,” sources in the party said.
left embarrassed by the articles criticising Nehru’s policies on Kashmir and China, Congress had last month issued a show-cause notice to the magazine’s editor Nirupam.