Congress general secretary Margaret Alva has resigned her post after the party's Disciplinary Action Committee (DAC) apparently threatened action against her for her allegation that tickets were sold during Karnataka assembly polls early this year.
Alva, who made the charge last week questioning the denial of an election ticket to her son Nivedith, met Congress chief Sonia Gandhi last night after appearing before the DAC headed by A K Antony and is believed to have offered to resign.
The 66-year-old leader, who was in charge of party affairs in several states, including Maharashtra, Punjab, Haryana and poll-bound Mizoram, is expected to send her formal resignation to Gandhi today, sources said.
The general secretary had alleged that "different yardsticks" were being adopted in deciding party nominations for upcoming elections in six states.
She was, however, snubbed by the AICC which rejected the charges of sale of tickets and ruled out any probe in the matter, besides maintaining that "no wrong-doing" had happened in the distribution of tickets in Karnataka.
The party High Command had also disapproved of her action of going to the media over the issue.
She had questioned why Nivedith as also the grandson of former Union minister C K Jaffer Sharief were not given nominations while relatives of two dozen leaders were given tickets in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir.
"Were my son and Jaffer Sharief's grandson anti-national, terrorists or smugglers?" Alva had asked.
Alva has also been unhappy over the appointment of her bete noire R V Deshpande as Karnataka PCC chief recently.
