Verbal duel between Singh, Dhumal escalates

The war of attrition between chief minister Virbhadra Singh and former chief minister PK Dhumal escalated on Sunday with both the arch rivals upping the ante against each other.

Chief minister’s reported remarks at Una on Saturday that he would not sit quite and release the list of properties of Dhumal and his family members, evoked sharp reaction from the BJP leader who dared the chief minister to release the list of his properties. 

While the Singh reportedly said that Dhumal and his sons were allegedly involved in many scams, Dhumal hit out his rival saying that “it has become habit of the chief minister to make such wild allegations to divert the attention of people from the charges of corruption levelled against him”.

“During past four months, he had been repeating this threat but I would not be cowed down and dare him to release the list of his properties.

“All my properties had been declared in the affidavit filed at the time contesting the assembly polls and if there is any other property, not mentioned in the affidavit, chief minister is free to vest it in the government”, Dhumal said.