“It’s difficult to comment on something that comes on a website. One can put anything on a website. So, this needs to be checked. If that is true or false, whether such an incident happened or not,” Shah said in an interview to ETV late Friday.
Amit Shah said the claims against MJ Akbar needed to be looked into. (Photo: IANS)
Amit Shah, the President of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), while speaking about the Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs MJ Akbar, who is facing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, has said that he was not in a position to comment on Akbar as the claims against the Union Minister needed to be “looked into.”
“It’s difficult to comment on something that comes on a website. One can put anything on a website. So, this needs to be checked. If that is true or false, whether such an incident happened or not,” Shah said in an interview to ETV late Friday.
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“It will have to be seen if it is the same person who is levelling allegations or someone else has put it up (on social media). All these things will have to be seen. And once we do it, we will certainly think over it (the action against Akbar),” he added.
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Akbar has been accused of sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour by several women journalists.
Akbar is currently on an official tour abroad and is yet to make a statement on the allegations pointed at him.
Female journalists who have levelled charges against Akbar include Majlie de Puy Kamp, Ghazala Wahab, Priya Ramani, Shutapa Paul, Prerna Singh Bindra, Sujata Anandan, Shuma Raha, Harinder Baweja, and Anju Bharti.
(With agency inputs)
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