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Anil Sharma: An ace up BJP's sleeve to counter Congress?

Anil Sharma's son and Sukh Ram's grandson back in the BJP, the idea of family rule will be challenged vigorously by the BJP, or will it?

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Anil Sharma

Aditi Phadnis New Delhi
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