Smell of a power struggle?

If the bribe-for-PPE-supply controversy in Himachal escalates, fanned helpfully by the Chief Minister and his supporters, the BJP could have a lot to lose

When Director of Health Services in Himachal Pradesh, A K Gupta, al­legedly asked a Sirmaur-based supplier of PPE kits for a bribe for a state government purchase and allegedly informed somebody on his mobile phone — many say Rajeev Bindal, erstwhile chief of the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party — that he was coming to meet him with the money, the officer could not have thought that he would be arrested. He was, after all, in touch with the (now former) president of the state unit of the ruling party who is not a nobody.

So what happened?

Congress leader