Daunting road ahead for Virbhadra Singh in sixth innings

Without mincing words, and losing no opportunity to take a dig at his predecessor in office, Prem Kumar Dhumal of the BJP, he said: "Fighting out corruption will be the top priority. But I will not fabricate cases against political opponents, as the BJP did."

But the chief minister said categorically that the officials and political officials who were involved in corruption would not be spared.

"Special investigation teams will be soon constituted to investigate cases where top political and administrative functionaries were involved in corruption, especially in illegal property transactions," he said.