A political heavyweight, Singh has proved that he can be down but not out. Attempts by the Congress to sideline him after his resignation from the Union Cabinet in the wake of corruption charges against him also failed and he resurrected as a force to reckon. His known detractors like Sukh Ram have now come out openly in his favour.
For Virbhadra, however, controversies and struggles are not new. Carted out of Himachal in 2007 when the party lost the state to the BJP, Singh was made a union minister in 2009. Only recently Virbhadra received another blow after his son Vikramaditya's election as the state youth Congress chief was set aside and he was debarred from running again.
Then came a series of political allegations against Virbhadra including the one following the release of an Income Tax Investigation which said some “VBS” received kickbacks from a steel company in exchange for favours.
The case dated back to the time when Virbhadra was steel minister but he vehemently denied the allegations and went to the people with a simple message that his detractors were trying to malign his reputation.
