Ironically, 78-year-old Singh, the Minister for Small, Micro and Medium Industries, celebrated 50 years in politics on Sunday when he declared that he was fit as a fiddle to bring the Congress back in power in Himachal Pradesh which is slated to go for assembly polls later this year.
A five-time Chief Minister, Singh and his wife Pratibha Singh, were slapped with charges of corruption and criminal misconduct by the Himachal court in a 23-year-old case.
The case against Singh pertains to a CD recording of a 1989 conversation in which he and his wife have been accused of discussing with an IAS officer kickbacks from industrialists who want to invest in the state.
Singh and his wife were booked in the case on August 3, 2009, on the basis of an audio CD released by his arch rival and former Congress Minister Vijay Singh Mankotia in May 2007 and the prosecution filed the case in the court of special judge in October 2010.
Considered a doughty fighter, Singh has accused the BJP government in the state of targeting him and vowed to come out clean.(MORE)
