India

Mayawati trading party tickets for money: Kishore

PTI

BSP’s former zonal coordinator Jugal Kishore on Sunday accused party supremo Mayawati of selling party tickets for Assembly and Parliamentary seats in return for money. “I was sidelined only when I objected this practice to the BSP supremo and urged her to put a full stop on it,” Kishore said.

Kishore, who was removed from the top party post of zonal coordinator on Saturday, demanded a CBI inquiry into his allegations and said many of the legislatures would expose the seat-trading if a fair probe was conducted.

“Even I was asked to pay Rs50 lakh for the party ticket for my son Saurabh Singh from Kasta Assembly seat. “I raised a voice and was silenced immediately by being sidelined in the party, which I founded in 1984 along with Dalit messiah late Kanshi Ram,” he alleged.