Assam CM Himanta threatens to tug Sisodia to court docket

Express News Service

GUWAHATI: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday hit again at Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, threatening to file a prison defamation swimsuit in opposition to him.

“Stop sermonising and I will see you soon in Guwahati as you will face criminal defamation,” Sarma tweeted.

The assertion comes hours after Sisodia slammed the BJP, claiming Sarma had indulged in corruption by awarding contracts of PPE kits and different Covid-related gadgets to his spouse Riniki Bhuyan Sarma and son’s enterprise companions.

Sarma additionally issued an announcement, directed at Sisodia, by way of Twitter.

“Manish Bhai, most surprising that you once claimed to be an ‘anti-corruption’ activist. At that point of the Covid wave, we in Assam did not have a single PPE kit. After hectic efforts, my wife managed to bring in a few kits to save precious lives. Although the NHM issued an order, the company raised no bill and the kits were gifted to the Govt,” the Assam CM wrote.

He requested how there was corruption when not a single penny was transacted. He stated attributable to acute scarcity then, each authorities, together with the Delhi authorities, had waived the tender course of for PPE kits and went for direct buy.

“Don’t cherry-pick from half the documents. Have the courage to put all the facts. Don’t show half of a document trail, have the courage to put all the facts?” Sarma additional wrote.

Two days in the past, his spouse had dismissed the fees as “unfounded”.

She stated within the first week of the pandemic when not a single PPE package was accessible in Assam, she had reached out to a enterprise acquaintance and delivered round 1,500 PPE kits to the NHM with a number of effort.

“Later on, I wrote to the NHM to treat the same as a part of my CSR. I did not take a single penny out of this supply. I have always been transparent about my belief in giving back to the society, irrespective of my husband’s political standing,” she had stated.