"Should I teach you a lesson?": PKB threatens journalists

Chandigarh, May 12: Maintaining that he was innocent, beleaguered former railway minister

, who was forced to resign in the wake of arrest of his nephew on bribery charge, on Sunday said "nothing will come out from this case".

Further being questioned by media, PKB threatens them saying, "Should I teach you a lesson?".

"I am not associated with the case.... I assure you (party workers) that nothing will come out from this case," the Congress leader, who is now back home rallying support apparently with an eye on next Lok Sabha elections, said at a meeting with local party leaders at his private residence.

"Only I can say is that I am innocent," he said while seeking support of party workers.

"I repeatedly maintain that I am innocent," he told reporters during the meeting.

Bansal, who returned to his home town last night for the first time after the arrest of his nephew Vijay Singla for allegedly accepting Rs.90 lakh in bribe from a railway board official to fix a plum post for him, convened a meeting of local party level office bearers and activists.

The move was seen as attempt to show that he still "enjoys party's support and command".
Bansal will chalk out a political strategy for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls with party workers on Sunday, party insiders said.

Welcoming the CBI investigations into the alleged bribery case, Bansal said that "I have nothing to do with the case."

PTI