Bhubaneswar: The Puri Lok Sabha candidate for the Congress, Sucharita Mohanty, withdrew her ticket. Mohanty claims that the celebration had ‘denied her funding’. Speaking to ANI on her letter withdrawing the candidature, the Congress chief mentioned, “I have returned the ticket because the party was not able to fund me. Another reason is that in some of the seats in seven Assembly segments, winnable candidates have not been given the ticket. Instead, some weak candidates got the ticket. I couldn’t contest like this.”
Mohanty said earlier on Saturday that her marketing campaign within the Puri constituency ‘has been hit laborious’ by a scarcity of funding. She additionally said that her makes an attempt to generate cash by means of a public contribution drive noticed little to no outcomes.Â
In order to hunt assist from the celebration management, Mohanty wrote a letter that was addressed to the celebration basic secretary, KC Venugopal. “Our campaign in the Puri Parliamentary constituency has been hit hard because the party has denied me funding. AICC Odisha in-charge Ajoy Kumar ji categorically asked me to fend for myself. I was a salaried professional journalist who entered electoral politics 10 years ago. I have given all I have into my campaign in Puri.”
“I tried a public donation drive to support my campaign for progressive politics without much success so far. I also tried to cut down the projected campaign spending to the minimum,” she added. She additional mentioned that the celebration’s central management didn’t are likely to her a number of requests to offer funds.
“Since I couldn’t raise funds on my own, I knocked at your and all other doors of our party’s central leadership urging them to commit the necessary party funds for an impactful campaign in Puri Parliament seat. Like in 2014, I found a groundswell of popular support behind our party and my candidature. In this 2024 Satta Vs Janata election, the people are all set to throw out the two corrupt and scamsters ruling parties, BJP and BJP and vote for 5 Nyays and 25 guarantees of Congress,” Mohanty mentioned. Mohanty additional asserted to stay a “loyal soldier of Congress and leader Rahul Gandhi”.
“It is clear that only fund crunch is holding us back from a winning campaign in Puri. I regret that without party funding, it won’t be possible to carry out the campaign in Puri. I, therefore, return the INC ticket for the Puri parliamentary constituency herewith,” the Congress chief mentioned.
“I am a Congresswoman with core Congress values in my DNA. I shall remain a loyal soldier of Congress and my leader Jananayak Rahul Gandhi ji,” she added.Â
In the Puri seat, Mohanty was contesting towards Sambit Patra of the BJP. Pinaki Misra, a member of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), presently holds the constituency. Sixth section voting in Puri is about to happen on May 25. On June 4, there will likely be a vote depend. Pinaki Misra defeated Sambit Patra of the BJP by a margin of 11,714 votes within the basic elections of 2019.
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