Kangra, May 4 -- Anand Sharma, Congress candidate from Kangra-Chamba Lok Sabha constituency, on Saturday paid obeisance at Brajeshwari Devi Temple, one of the 52 Shaktipeeths at Kangra.
On the occasion, senior priests of the temple, Umesh Sharma, Umakant Sharma, and Sadan Sharma, briefed the Congress leader about the temple's history.
Later, talking to the media, Anand Sharma said he used to come to Brajeshwari Devi Temple with his parents during his childhood.
In a bid to counter the BJP's sustained campaign that Congress has given ticket to a candidate who is an outsider, Sharma said, "I want to tell the BJP that I am a permanent resident of this hill state and was born and brought up in Shimla, the capital of the state, but the...