It’s a happy birthday indeed for Mumbai Congress president Sanjay Nirupam, who turned 52 yesterday and confirmed that the party’s disciplinary panel had given him a reprieve in the recent magazine controversy in which the party’s mouthpiece ran injudicious articles on party’s icons Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and current national president Sonia Gandhi. Nirupam is the editor of the magazine.

The party’s vice-president, Rahul Gandhi, had given Nirupam a clean chit during his tour of Mumbai in January