PPE Kit Row: Assam CM Hits Back At Manish Sisodia, Refers To 2020 Tweet To Target Kejriwal

Sarma referred to Kejriwal’s 2020 tweet exchange with Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and cricketer-turned-politician Gautam Gambhir to lambast him.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma | File Image

New Delhi: A day after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) accused him of awarding contracts to the companies linked to his wife and son for supplying PPE kits at above market rates during the Covid-19 pandemic, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday dug up an old tweet of his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal to attack him for buying PPE kits without tender.

Sarma referred to Kejriwal’s 2020 tweet exchange with Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and cricketer-turned-politician Gautam Gambhir to lambast him.

He asked if Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia thinks that Kejriwal is corrupt as he asked someone to arrange PPE kits from somewhere immediately

“Delhi CM suo moto offered to buy PPE kits from anywhere without tender. Why? Does his Deputy CM think the CM is corrupt as he asked someone to arrange PPE kits from somewhere immediately, and said that Delhi Govt will buy them? No reference to any tender etc.,” Sarma tweeted.

“AAP leaders chose to contradict each other rather than fighting a crisis. People of Delhi are paying the price for this,” he wrote on the micro-blogging platform.

The Assam Chief Minister’s outburst came a day after Sisodia alleged that he awarded a contract for Covid Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits to a company linked to his wife and grossly overpaid for the gear.

Citing a media report, Sisodia said: “While the contract given to the firm of Sarma’s wife was cancelled as the company could not supply PPE kits, another supply order was given to the firm belonging to the business partners of his son at a rate of Rs 1,680 per kit.”