Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Speaker Tara Chand has rubbished allegations that he was involved in the Srinagar sex abuse scandal. Speaking at a public rally at Khour village in his Akhnoor constituency on Wednesday, the Speaker said “your representative is spotless...there is nothing to worry” even as he appealed to his supporters not to indulge in mudslinging against anyone. The allegations against him came at a rally in Akhnoor on Sunday where Congress MP from Jammu-Rajouri Madan Lal Sharma said two senior state party leaders, including Chand, “escaped probe in the scandal only because of the intervention of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad”.

Here, on Wednesday, Chand said the allegations did not have an iota truth and told his electorate to judge him by his deeds. “Tara Chand kitna chor hai....badmash hai....ya phir corrupt hai....aapke samne hai... (whatever I am it is for you to judge me),” he told a large gathering at Khour in his Akhnoor constituency.