CM Sukhu, Dharamshala MLA engage in ugly war of words over Rs 51L donation
, claiming that the Rs 51 lakh recently donated by the Dharamshala legislator to disaster-affected people in Mandi could be the same money received to switch parties last year, took an ugly turn on Friday.
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Hitting back at the CM, Sharma remarked on social media: "The one who has bought the chair himself sees everything for sale."
A former town and country planning minister in the Congress govt, Sharma was among the six rebel Congress MLAs who joined the BJP on March 23, 2024.
Responding to a media query on whether other MLAs should also come forward like Sharma, who donated Rs 51 lakh to disaster-affected people in Mandi, the CM had said: "Now we will have to see whether these Rs 51 lakh are those which were taken to change the party.
I will have to see whether these Rs 51 lakh were withdrawn from the bank."
The CM also clarified that the state govt had taken the incident of throwing shoes by the BJP workers at revenue minister Jagat Singh Negi's official vehicle carrying the "Taranga" seriously and could not accept insults to the Tricolour. However, if any innocent person has been named in the FIR, he will not be harassed, he added.
Shortly after, the Dharamshala MLA Sharma took to social media, tagged the video of the chief minister's statement, and commented: "He is suffering from Sudhirphobia, by the way, calling the Tiranga a 'Taranga' is also an insult to the Tricolour.
The one who has bought the chair himself sees everything for sale. Sudhir Sharma is not afraid of poor mentality, I feel pity for him. The officer standing next to him who is showing the teeth is the one who routed Rs 1 crore in my by-election from Chandigarh, there is proof.
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The matter did not stop there, as Sharma, in another social media post, attacked the chief minister by mentioning: "Apni biwi ke upchunaav mein Kangra Bank ke paise kisane baante? Khud miyaan fazeehat, auron ko naseehat.
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(Who distributed Kangra Bank's money during his wife's by-election? The man himself is disgraced, and is giving advice to others)."
Sukhu's wife Kamlesh Thakur had won the bypoll from the Dehra legislative assembly constituency in Kangra district in July last year. The opposition BJP had levelled serious allegations even inside the Vidhan Sabha that the Congress govt had disbursed Rs 50,000 each to two mahila mandals a day ahead of the July 10, 2024 bypoll in Dehra.
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