Cong workers rough up Kaiser, Ashok
Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (BPCC) president Choudhary Mehboob Ali Kaiser and its Legislature party leader in the state Assembly Ashok Kumar were on Saturday roughed up by their party activists who charged them with “ignoring genuine workers” in allotment of tickets.
Soon after Mr Kaiser and Mr Kumar stepped out of the Jaya Prakash Narayan International Airport here after they arrived by a flight from New Delhi, hundreds of Congress workers reportedly owing allegiance to Chandrabali Thakur, a ticket seeker, from Sarairanjan constituency in Samastipur, started chasing them. They hurled choicest invectives against the two and surrounded them when they boarded their respective vehicle. They shouted slogans against them and alleged that the two state leaders had “taken huge money from a builder from Mumbai Abhash Jha for ensuring a party ticket from Sarai Ranjan.” When contacted, BPCC media cell chairman Prem Chandra Mishra refuted the allegations of “money power” playing important factor in distribution of tickets and said “it is a normal phenomenon... Those who have received tickets they are happy and those denied nomination are aggrieved.” “We will definitely try to resolve the temporary revo-lt in the party,” he said. Several angry party workers also locked the office of Mr Kaiser at the Sadaquat Ashram here this afternoon and held demonstrations before the party office. Reports from Gopalganj and Samastipur districts said angry over denial of tickets to the leaders, the party workers ransacked the offices at Bibhutipur and Gopalganj. —PTI
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