SHIMLA: Corruption, Sukh Ram and Anil Sharma are at the top of the BJP’s agenda for the monsoon session of the state Vidhan Sabha beginning here from Sept. 6. The government is going to be at the receiving end on COPE plank, which even overshadows Congress’s land slide victory in the recent Sabha elections) for the first the Bhartiya Janata party likely to make direct attack against the Congress government for patronizing corruption. Al though the party has announced its strategy to hold rallies at district headquarters to seekers of former Union Communication Minister, Sukh Ram, the mode of protest in Vidhan Sabha has not yet been announced. The party insiders say BJP MLAs would put pressure on Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh to dis miss Anil Sharma, son of Sukh Ram, from his ministry. The session having a total six sittings is going to witness lively debates on several development issues and is the first after six independent MLAs had been in ducted in the Congress legislature party as its associate members. The party had swept the parliamentary elections defeating BJP nominees on all the four seats.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 11, 1996
