NEW DELHI, Oct 9: The #MeToo movement that has caused a storm in the film industry and singed newsrooms reached the Modi government with former editor and union minister M.J. Akbar being named for sexual harassment by two journalists in the social media.
A day after journalist Priya Ramani levelled allegations against Akbar, who is a junior External Affairs Minister, another of his former colleagues Prerna Singh Bindra came up with charges of sexual harassment.
The Telegraph, of which Akbar was the founding editor, had carried a story on Tuesday based on tweets by Ramani and another account by an unnamed writer in Firstpost, a news portal. - IANS
