Discovering himself in an unsavoury row after the Himachal Pradesh CID initiated a probe into ‘samosas’ being served to his workers as an alternative of him, CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu Friday mentioned the probe was not in regards to the savoury snacks, which, he mentioned “the media has turned it into”, however it was to establish the “misbehaviour” of officers.
After CM’s workers consumed three packing containers of samosas and cake, from a five-star resort for Sukhu to be served throughout an occasion on October 21, show-cause notices have been slapped in opposition to 5 police personnel, together with a girl inspector. A CID probe termed its consumption “anti-government” and an “anti-CID” act. The CID and the BJP got here out with statements as Sukhu termed the entire fracas a “smear” marketing campaign by the opposition celebration.
“The BJP’s behaviour in raking up this subject is infantile and laughable,” he mentioned to reporters in Delhi and accused the BJP of working a marketing campaign to tarnish him ever because it misplaced the Meeting polls.
He mentioned, “The probe (by the CID) was about misbehaviour of officers however the media has turned it right into a probe into samosas. The DGP has already given a clarification on this regard,” Sukhu mentioned.
CID DG Ranjhan Ojha mentioned it was an inner matter. “The Chief Minister was the chief visitor on the launch of a knowledge centre for the cybercrime wing. After the occasion, the officers have been having tea within the workplace when somebody requested the place have been the eatables introduced for the perform and we mentioned, ‘pata karo kya hua’ (discover out what occurred),” mentioned Ojha. He additional mentioned that “neither have we issued any discover nor have we referred to as for any clarification” and added that the matter shouldn’t be politicised. “We merely requested for clarification as to what occurred, and a written report was submitted. We’ve got no intention of taking motion in opposition to anybody. I urge the media to not hyperlink this with any particular particular person,” the DG mentioned.
CM’s principal media adviser Naresh Chauhan too claimed that no such investigation has taken place. Chauhan advised that it could possibly be an inner matter of CID. “Some persons are conspiring to defame this authorities. The federal government has neither initiated nor performed any such inquiry,” Chauhan mentioned.
The BJP, nonetheless, discovered a deal with to tackle Congress dispensation with Chief of Opposition Jai Ram Thakur saying that whereas the allegations of corruption in numerous departments weren’t being probed, an inquiry was ordered into the lacking samosas.
“The opposition has not eaten these samosas, those that have been served these samosas have been part of the federal government, so how may the act be anti-government?” Thakur mentioned. BJP’s chief spokesperson Randhir Sharma too issued an announcement saying the the incident “highlights a scarcity of coordination between the officers and staff, in addition to negligence on their half”. One other BJP spokesperson Chetan Bragata mentioned in a video assertion that an “inquiry into samosas” exhibits the “misplaced priorities” of the federal government.
