Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has said that former Congress general secretary, Margaret Alva should furnish proof on her allegation that tickets were sold to candidates in the party during elections. Describing Alva's allegation as "baseless", Scindia said that if there was any truth in it, she should furnish proof to substantiate it.The Minister, who was to address an election rally in Indore on Sunday, told media that strict steps were being taken in the Congress against those indulging in indiscipline and even senior leaders are not spared.Recently, Digvijay Singh had said that Alva should first furnish proof and then make an allegation of this nature.Margaret Alva enemy for herself: MoilyMargaret Alva, who faced the wrath of the Congress high command, was "an enemy for herself" as she questioned the morality of the party with the charge of sale of tickets in Karnataka, senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily has said.Rejecting Alva's charge of discrimination, he said that the Congress "has not 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 he issues of internal democracy and transparency raised by Rahul Gandhi while distributing tickets for the current assembly elections.
