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.