India minister goes amid harassment claims

By Ashok Sharma and Emily Schmall
Updated October 18 2018 - 1:36pm, first published 1:30pm
Indian Junior Foreign Minister MJ Akbar (centre) has resigned amid sexual harassment accusations.
Indian Junior Foreign Minister MJ Akbar (centre) has resigned amid sexual harassment accusations.

India's junior external affairs minister MJ Akbar has resigned amid accusations by 20 women of sexual harassment during his previous career as one of the country's most prominent news editors, becoming the most powerful man to fall in India's burgeoning #MeToo movement.