‘Samosa politics’ erupts in Himachal, BJP MLA orders samosas online for Sukhu

Shimla: In a bid to heat up the politics over samosas in Himachal Pradesh, a BJP MLA has ordered 11 samosas online for chief minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu.

Hamirpur MLA Ashish Sharma took to social media to take a dig at the CID probe into the situation in which samosas brought for the chief minister were served to his security staff.

However, the ruling Congress has said that the state government has not ordered any such inquiry and it could be an internal matter of the CID. A top CID official also said that no formal inquiry had been ordered into the incident.

“The state is already grappling with problems like unemployment, financial crisis, delay in pension of employees and arrears of Dearness Allowance and at such a time it is very disappointing to order a CID probe into the samosas brought for Chief Minister Sukhu,” Sharma said.

“When the people of the hill state are fighting for their rights, the government should focus on the real issues and not on such petty issues,” he said in a post in Hindi on Facebook.

“In protest, I have sent 11 samosas to the chief minister to remind him that it is more important to solve the real problems of the people,” he said.