Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit made it clear today that she was not responsible for the denial of Lok Sabha ticket to controversial party leader Jagdish Tytler but said that the decision had been taken in the larger interest of the Congress party.
Maintaining that she had no grudge against Tytler, a former Union Minister who was dropped as the party candidate from the capital in the backdrop of controversy surrounding his alleged role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, she said she felt "a little sad" that he "seems to misunderstand me".
"I have told him, Jagdishji, your paths and my paths just do not not cross. If you were wanting to become the Chief Minister then I can imagine, yes, both of us having a clash. But you were an MP, you were a minister there (at the Centre)....", Dikshit told NDTV.
Her remarks come in the backdrop of a last-minute decision by the Congress to deny tickets to Tytler and another party veteran Sajjan Kumar after an uproar their suspected role in the riots. Tytler had obliquely attacked Dikshiit saying that she had become "very big".
The Chief Minister said, "No, no, I do not not think I have become big. I have just done what anyother person would have done in my position. And I certainly do not not think that I have become big and woe betide the day I start believing that I have become very big. No, no."