'Stop preaching,' Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said in response to Sisodia's allegations

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• Jun 4, 2022 | Sourav Boruah

Digital Desk: Himanta
Biswa Sarma, the chief minister of Assam, slammed Delhi deputy chief minister
Manish Sisodia for levelling corruption allegations against him, threatening to
file a criminal defamation case against the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader.

Earlier in the day, Sisodia said that in 2020, when the
country was fighting the Covid-19 outbreak, Sarma, then Assam's health
minister, granted government contracts to his wife's and son's business
partners to supply Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits at above-market
costs.

Sisodia told a press conference that while the Assam
government bought PPE kits for Rs 600 each from other companies, Sarma
"took advantage of the emergency" by placing urgent supply orders for
Rs 990 each with the firms of his wife and son's business associates.