Bhubaneswar: In a shock to Congress, Lok Sabha candidate Sucharita Mohanty from Puri returned her party ticket after being denied fund for campaigning.
Her campaign in the parliamentary constituency has been hit hard due to non-allotment of funds and this promoted her to take this decision, sources said.
In a letter to AICC general secretary (Organisation), K. C. Venugopal, Sucharita said, “Our campaign in Puri Parliamentary Constituency has been hit hard because the Party has denied me funding. AICC Odisha In-Charge Dr 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”, read her letter.
She further mentioned “Since I couldn’t raise funds on my own, I knocked at your’s 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… It is clear that only fund crunch is holding us back from a winning campaign in Puri.”
Congress encountered trouble after Mohanty returned the ticket as only two days left to file nomination forms for the third phase of upcoming polls.
