Karnataka Congress was accused for cash-for-ticket charge in 2008 elections
Team Udayavani, Mar 17, 2018, 12:03 PM IST
Bengaluru: The most recent charge of money for-ticket isn’t anything new the Congress is looking during the Karnataka Assembly polls. During the appropriation of tickets for the Assembly polls in 2008, senior leader Margaret Alva had made similar assertions.
Margret, who was AICC general secretary at that time, apparently made the charges against the party initiative for denying the ticket for her daughter Nivedith Alva to challenge from Khanapur Constituency. She had blamed the party’s big leaders for selling the party tickets.
Meanwhile her allegations were denied by the party’s top leaders. In response to that she had said that the media had cited her outside the context. Siddaramaiah had nearly supported Margret’s assertion, saying: “This is a genuine allegation and the party should investigate it truly.”
M Veerappa Moily’s tweet on Thursday, which he has deleted, is said to be because of a few leaders restricting the Congress ticket to his son from Karkala.
Conceding few senior leaders of the party were requesting the tickets for their kin, KPCC chief G Parameshwara stated, “Nothing wrong in giving a ticket to children of senior leaders. But, certain parameters will be leived.”
With over twelve senior leaders requesting the tickets for their children, the party’s head leaders are hard to deal with the issue, said a senior leader.
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