I am no gunda: Sudhir Sharma

Lalit Mohan

Tribune News Service

Dharamsala, October 21

Minister for Urban Development, the blue-eyed boy of Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, today filed nomination papers in Dharamsala. As per the affidavit filed along with the nomination papers, the income of Sudhir Sharma increased manifold in the past five years.

After filing the nomination papers, Sudhir Sharma organised a rally at Dari ground, which was thinly attended as compared to the arrangements made by the minister.

Addressing a gathering, Sudhir Sharma said, “I am not a gunda. Opposition leader Kishan Kapoor called me a gunda. He should explain what type of hooliganism I have done in the past five years.”

Sudhir said he had brought the Smarty City project, Central University Himachal Pradesh (CUHP) and the second capital status to Dharamsala. The BJP leaders have been opposing all development projects brought by him to the area.

Dharamsala has witnessed massive development in the past five years. A new water scheme worth Rs 27 crore has been implemented, underground dustbins have been installed. “I have carried out development in Dharamsala despite opposition from the Shimla lobby and state leadership of the BJP that even moved the High Court against the grant of the Smart City status to Dharamsala,” Sudhir said.