The Congress on Saturday introduced Jay Narayan Patnaik as its Puri candidate after Sucharita Mohanty stepped again forward of the third part of the Lok Sabha elections. Issuing an official assertion, the Congress mentioned that get together president Mallikarjun Kharge has authorized the candidature of Jai Narayan Patnaik (instead of Sucharita Mohanty) because the get together candidate from Puri parliamentary constituency for the Lok Sabha elections.
Earlier, Mohanty declined to contest the elections and returned the get together ticket alleging a scarcity of funding from the get together. Mohanty, daughter of former Congress MP Brajamohan Mohanty in a mail to AICC common secretary (organisation) Ok C Venugopal claimed that her marketing campaign within the Puri Lok Sabha constituency has been hit arduous as a result of the get together has denied funding.
“I used to be a salaried skilled journalist who entered electoral politics 10 years in the past. I’ve given all I’ve into my marketing campaign in Puri. I attempted a public donation drive to assist my marketing campaign for progressive politics with out a lot success thus far. I additionally tried to chop down the projected marketing campaign spending to the minimal,” she talked about.
As she was not capable of increase funds on her personal, the Congress chief had approached all senior leaders together with the get together’s central management for funds for an impactful marketing campaign within the Puri Lok Sabha constituency. “It’s clear that solely fund crunch is holding us again from a profitable marketing campaign in Puri. I remorse that with out get together funding, it will not be doable to hold out the marketing campaign in Puri. I, subsequently, return the get together ticket for the Puri Lok Sabha constituency herewith,” she mentioned in her mail to the AICC.
Nevertheless, Mohanty mentioned she’s going to stay a loyal Congress employee and her chief is Rahul Gandhi. Sucharita has been fielded for the Puri LS seat towards BJP nationwide spokesperson Sambit Patra and BJD candidate Arup Patnaik, a former Mumbai Police Commissioner.
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