Cong workers ransack building over denial of poll ticket

Alleging "irregularities" in ticket distribution for MCD polls, some party workers today protested at the Delhi Congress office and ransacked the ground floor of the building.
The protesters who gathered at the office at Rajiv Bhawan near ITO, were enraged over denial of party ticket to their leader from Kamla Nagar ward in North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC).
"The workers were raising slogans and protested but there was no vandalism," said senior party leader Chatar Singh.
Local leader Baljit Sinsinwar was an applicant from the unreserved Kamla Nagar ward but was denied ticket by the party.
No complaint has been filed in this regard with police, Singh said.

Some senior leaders of the party including A K Walia have also expressed unhappiness over ticket distribution for MCD polls.

Walia has come out openly with allegations of "irregularities" in ticket distribution and threatened to quit the party over the issue.
Other senior leaders Arvinder Singh Lovely and Haroon Yusuf too have expressed "deep dissatisfaction" with ticket distribution and "neglect" of their supporters complaining to the party high command in this regard, party sources said.
Also, Ambrish Gautam, three-time MLA of the party and ex-deputy Speaker of Delhi Assembly yesterday quit the Congress and joined the BJP alleging he was "not consulted" in ticket distribution.

However, former president of Delhi Congress and senior leader Subhash Chopra rejected charges of "irregularities" in ticket distribution saying it was "most transparent" this time.
"Resentment is bound to be there when there are 10-12 applicants from each ward," he said.