Cong distances itself from Tripathi

Also,late Congress chief minister Sripati Mishra’s son Rakesh Mishra,who is an advocate in the Allahabad High Court and the UPCC general secretary,clarified that Tripathi was not his father’s nephew but the son of his father’s aunt. “My father had no sister,he was the only child of his parents… He is the son of my father’s aunt. None of my family members has seen him or met him after my father died in 2002,” Rakesh Mishra told The Indian Express.

On Thursday,the Supreme Court stayed the Allahabad High Court judgment,which was scheduled for Friday,on Tripathi’s application. Tripathi,the defendant in one of the title suits,had earlier filed an application in the Allahabad High Court which was rejected on September 17,with a cost of Rs 50,000.

In his statement,the Congress spokesman said just because Tripathi is a distant relative of the late Sripati Mishra “does not mean he is a Congress follower or Congress member. Varun Gandhi is a relative of Rahul Gandhi,but both follow different ideologies.”

There is no truth in allegations that Tripathi’s applications had the Congress backing,Srivastava said. “The Congress respects the court orders and will do so in future as well.”