Daijiworld Media Network - New Delhi (SP)
Basngalore /New Delhi, Nov 17: By questioning the moral values of the Congress on the issue of the alleged 'sale of party tickets', Margaret Alva became her own enemy and hence is responsible for her own downfall, commented ex-chief minister and Congress leader M Veerappa Moily.
Dismissing allegations of nepotism and vested interests working in the Congress party as charged by Alva, Moily denied that the party had placed total ban on issuing tickets to close relatives of party leaders. "The fact that she stepped down has not made me happy. But, after the statements like the ones she issued, there was no other choice. She became her own enemy by resorting to party-bashing. I do not think that her enemies from outside have played a role in her downfall," Moily explained. He was being interviewed by TV presenter Karan Thapar in the 'Devil's Advocate' programme of the CNN-IBN channel.
Moily was asked as to whether the Congress was justified in taking away the posts of the party general secretary and the membership of the election committee of the party from Alva and also as to whether the caucus around party president Sonia Gandhi wanted to dump her.
It may be recalled, that Alva was unhappy over the denial of the party ticket to her son Nivedit in the last assembly election and had complained that different yardsticks are being used by the party on the issue in different states. She also had pointed out at some of the party leaders who were in charge of the party affairs in Karnataka, for the faux-pas in the matter.