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Rejecting Alva's charge of discrimination, he said that the Congress "has not put a total ban on the kith and kin or the children of any politician" getting tickets.
"We are not happy that she had to go but it was inevitable particularly after the kind of statement.... She was enemy for herself. I don't think she needs an outside enemy on an issue like this," he told Karan Thapar on "Devil's Advocate" programme on CNN-IBN.
He was asked whether Congress had acted judiciously in stripping Alva of her general secretaryship and her membership of the CEC and if a coterie around party chief Sonia Gandhi wanted her out of the way.
Alva was unhappy after a ticket was denied to her son Nivedith in Karnataka and had spoken of adoption of different yardsticks on nominations to kith and kin of leaders in that state and those during the Assembly polls which are currently on.
"Right from the day one of gaining Independence, right from the day when we started getting into the elections, the Congress has not put a total ban on the kith and kin or the children of any politician," Moily, who is also a former Karnataka Chief Minister, said.
He dismissed suggestions that the party has ignored the issues of internal democracy and transparency raised by Rahul Gandhi while distributing tickets for the current assembly elections.
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It is fact of the life that party observers are collecting money when they get a chance. I am aware of at least one congress man boasting of such thing. Even in time of Indira Gandhi and Nehru, money has change hand for tickets. Some time in support to other constituency candidates. For example in after war of 1971 elections one the Gujart politician was told to pay for Kapadvanj constituency in Gujarat. Now that has changed and the observers are making money for themselves too. How some politicians survive and get rich when they don't have any known source of income for their entire career? Congress has bundle of such examples!