Former district Congress chief to contest independently

BARWANI: Denied ticket by

Congress in Khargone Lok Sabha seat

,

former Barwani district Congress president

Sukhlal Parmar has decided to

contest

as

independent candidate.

“I will file nomination as Congress and independent candidates both on April 25. If the ticket given to Dr Govind Mujalde is not changed then I will contest independently,” Parma told mediapersons on Wednesday.

Parmar claimed that he would be given ticket and its possibility was high since senior Congress office-bearers had promised him to give ticket.

“I have already got support of BSP, JAYS, Adivasi Patel Sangh (Sansad) and other social organisations. In past 15 years, I worked hard for the party, but Lata Rawat, wife of Sendhwa MLA Gyarsi Lal Rawat, was made zila panchayat president. It was so unfair,” he said.

Parmar added that during assembly

elections

all senior Congress leaders had decided to give him ticket, but he was again cheated and Rawat was given ticket from Sendhwa.

Despite being denied ticket in assembly election he supported the party and helped Rawat to win elections, Parmar claimed adding that an agreement was made that he would be giving Lok Sabha polls ticket. But minister Bala Bachchan and MLA Rawat and Congress leader Digvijaya Singh did not support him.

He claimed that all Congress MLAs and ministers area were indirectly supporting him and Dr Mujalde was nowhere in the contest.

Former block Congress

president

Sildar Patel alleged that Congress had sold tickets in assembly elections and it was being repeated in Lok Sabha elections too.

He claimed that he was having proof against selling of tickets during assembly elections and he will disclose it at a suitable time.

Khargone Lok Sabha of Congress in charge Himmat Patel said that he was in touch with him and expecting that Parmar will agree not to contest elections.

Patel had earlier met Parmar and tried to convince him for not contesting polls.