Priyanka Maurya  |  Photo Credit: ANI
Key Highlights
- I received a landline call & caller asked me for money for ticket but I denied, said Priyanka Maurya
- I completed all the tasks but the ticket was pre-planned, she alleged
- I want to send this message to Priyanka Gandhi that this type of work is happening on the ground, she added
New Delhi: Congress worker Priyanka Maurya, the poster girl for the grand old party’s ‘Ladki Hoon, Lad Sakti Hoon’ campaign has alleged that she was denied a ticket for the assembly elections because she refused to pay a bribe for the same.
The Congress worker claimed that instead of giving the ticket to her it was given to a person who joined the party just a month back.
“I completed all the tasks but the ticket was pre-planned and was given to a person who came just a month back. I want to send this message to Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi that such things are happening on the ground,” said Maurya while speaking to ANI.
In a tweet, Maurya claimed that she did not get the ticket because she is an OBC girl and could not bribe Priyanka Gandhi’s secretary Sandeep Singh.
She further alleged that she got a call from an unknown person wherein the caller asked her for money in return for a ticket, to which she refused.
Priyanka Maurya wanted to contest the UP polls from the Sarojini Nagar seat in Lucknow but the seat was allotted to Rudra Daman Singh.
She further said that no one wants to raise the issue of the ongoing rigging in ticket distribution and claimed that due to casteism in Congress, MLA Naresh Saini had to leave the party.
In a bid to woo women voters in Uttar Pradesh, Congress Party is running a campaign across the state with the slogan “Ladki hun Lad Sakti hun”.
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday released the party’s first list of 125 candidates for Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls that are due to start on February 10.
The grand old party has given tickets to many first-timers including anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) activist and party spokesperson in Uttar Pradesh Sadaf Jafar, Asha Singh, mother of the Unnao rape victim, Asha worker Poonam Pandey and Salman Khurshid’s wife Louise Khurshid.
Uttar Pradesh assembly elections will be held in seven phases from February 10 to March 7. The polling in Uttar Pradesh will be held on February 10, 14, 20, 23, 27 and March 3 and 7.