The state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded that Election Commission should take cognizance of allegation leveled by Bahujan Samaj Party’s former co-ordinator that tickets for elections were up for sale in the party. “This is a serious allegation that BSP tickets for parliamentary and assembly elections came with a price tag. The Election Commission should probe these allegations because these are detrimental to the democracy,” party spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak said here on Monday.
He said as the allegations have been leveled by a former senior leader Jugal Kishore who was party’s coordinator these cannot be ignored. “Kishore is categorical in claiming that Mayawati had put a price of Rs 1 crore on MPs ticket and Rs 50 lakh on legislator’s election. He had even claimed that money had played an important role in elections,” Pathak said. The BJP spokesman said that party’s senior leader Swamy Prasad Maurya too had indirectly admitted that party had changed candidates many time against whom financial irregularities were reported. The Election Commission should suo motto take note of this development in BSP and start a probe immediately,” he said.
Meanwhile, BJP leader led by party’s state president Dr laxmi ant Bajpai held demonstration outside Noida office demanding a CBI probe against Yadav Singh. Dr Bajpai also gave a 25-point charter of demand to Noida officials seeking details about corruption of Yadav Singh. “If we do not get any reply within 15 days, the BJP will launch an agitation,” Dr Bajpai declared.