BJP legislator orders samosas for Himachal Pradesh CM Sukhu

Taking a dig at the Congress government over conducting an inquiry by the Criminal Investigation Department CID into the sequence of events that led to samosas meant for the Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister CM being served to his security staff Ashish Sharma the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP legislator from Hamirpur placed an online order of 11 samosas for Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu reported news agency PTIMeanwhile the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha BJYM the youth wing of the saffron party held a samosadistribution programme in state capital Shimla BJYM members set up stalls in the citys Lower Bazar area and distributed samosas among people for free They also fed samosas to a poster of CM Sukhu TilakRss hellip pictwittercomoZpFrvinC2mdash BJYM Himachal BJYMinHP November 9 2024However the Congress maintained that the government had not ordered any such inquiry and it could be CIDs internal matter A top CID officer also said that no formal inquiry was ordered into the incidentIn a post in Hindi on Facebook Sharma said The state is already grappling with problems such as unemployment financial crisis delay in employees pension and arrears of DA dearness allowance and at such a time ordering a CID inquiry on samosas brought for CM Sukhu is very disappointingAccording to PTI Sharma added that when the people of the state are fighting for their rights the government should focus on real issues and not on such small mattersProtesting against this I have sent 11 samosas to the CM so that I can remind him that it is more important to solve the real problems of the people the Hamirpur Member of Legislative Assembly MLA addedOn October 21 CM Sukhu went to attend a programme at the CID headquarters in Shimla where samosas and cakes brought for him were served to his staff insteadSubsequently CID officers ordered an inquiry into the episode A noting by a senior officer on the inquiry report said the act was antigovernment and antiCIDAnother BJP MLA Sudhir Sharma who represents Dharamshala said the Congress government has made Himachal Pradesh a laughing stock in the countryBoth the MLAs are known critics of Sukhu They were among the nine legislators including Congress rebels and Independents who had voted against the Congress in the Rajya Sabha polls held earlier in the year They later joined the BJP and won the bypolls reported PTICongress govt has failed in all frontsMeanwhile state BJP vicepresident and Kangra Member of Parliament MP Rajiv Bharadwaj questioned what was inside the box along with the samosas that prompted the government to order an inquiryOn Saturday the BJYM members raised slogans against the government for ignoring serious issues and probing petty mattersState BJYM President Tilak Raj said people are unhappy with the government educated and unemployed youngsters are struggling to get jobs but the CID is probing nonserving of samosasHe claimed that the lawandorder situation has deteriorated in the state and drug abuse is on the rise among youngsters including schoolgoing children Of the 1170 youngsters in the age group of 1530 years admitted at rehabilitation centres 35 per cent are chitta addicts but the government is not bothered claimed RajState BJP media incharge Karan Nanda said the government has failed on all fronts Himachal Pradesh which is known as dev bhoomi is in news these days for all the wrong reasons such as toilet tax freight tax and and an inquiry into samosas said NandaMeanwhile Congress leaders accused the BJP of raising the controversy to harass the CM politicallyInternal matter of CID says CongressA Congress spokesperson said the BJP is bent upon harming the cause of the state governmentNaresh Chauhan who is the media advisor to CM said the government did not order any such inquiry and it could be an internal matter of the CID a stance maintained by the agency as wellOn Friday Sukhu said the probe was into the misbehaviour of officials but the media presented it as a probe into the missing samosas and claimed that the BJP has been running a smear campaign against the Congress government since his party secured a majority in the Assembly election in Himachal PradeshThe same day CID Director General Ranjhan Ojha while speaking about the matter in Shimla said The CM was the chief guest at the launch of a data centre for the cybercrime wing After the event the officials were having tea in the office when someone asked where were the eatables brought for the function and we said Pata karo kya hua find out what happenedNeither have we issued any notice nor called for any explanation The matter should not be politicised We simply asked for a clarification as to what happened and a written report was submitted We have no intention of taking action against anyoneWith PTI inputs