Shimla: Himachal Pradesh BJP unit president Rajiv Bindal on Wednesday gave a bill from his post within four and a half months of his appointment. Bindal said that he is resigning from his post because he wants to ensure that proper investigation is done in the alleged corruption case.
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In his resignation letter to BJP national president JP Nadda, Bindal has said that he is resigning on moral grounds as some people are forcibly dragging the name of the party in the alleged corruption committed by the state health director, while the party is in Pakistan. Ajay Kumar Gupta, Director of Health Services was arrested on 20 May by the State Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau. The arrest was made when an audio recording of his 43 seconds went viral, in which he was allegedly asking a person for a bribe of Rs five lakh. This case is related to PPE Kit. The director of the health department has been sent to police remand for five days. An official said that after the arrest, Gupta was suspended by the state government.
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Bindal, who became the state BJP president on January 18 after resigning from the post of state assembly speaker, said that he resigned so that there could be a proper investigation in the case without any pressure. The BJP said that the party president has accepted Bindal's resignation.
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This is the whole matter
In the midst of the corona epidemic, the Purchasing Committee, under the direction of Health Director Ajay Gupta, had placed 9 million supply orders. In this, a firm based in Mohali was ordered to produce five thousand PPE kits. However 40 companies from across the country participated in the tender process. It is special that a broker of five lakhs in audio was also being done for the deal of these PPE kits. To deal with Corona, the state government had given concession to purchase at the directorate and district level. Vigilance says that this brokerage in the Health Department is connected to the district level.
