In 2014, if Narendra Modi had asked Anil Sharma: “Mere paas kendriya sarkar hai, tumhare paas kya hai?” Sharma (who had just re-joined the Congress and was yet to become a minister) might have said: “Mere paas Madam hain”, referring to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who played a part in approving his defection and elevation as a minister for rural development and animal husbandry in the Congress government in Himachal Pradesh led by Virbhadra Singh.
Now to a similar question by Virbhadra Singh, whose government he abandoned earlier this week to cross the floor and join the Bharatiya Janata