Rajkot: Former president of Rajkot district Congress committee, Dinesh Chovatiya, resigned from the primary membership of the party on Saturday. He alleged irregularities in ticket distribution in Rajkot district as the reason for his decision. Chovatiya had contested the 2017 assembly elections on Congress ticket from Rajkot south constituency.
In a letter he has addressed to Amit Chavda, president of Gujarat Pradesh Congress, Chovatiya alleged that people “who have money power and near and are dear of leaders have got positions in the party.” “I got the representation of party workers that during the ticket distribution of Rajkot Municipal Corporation election tickets were sold for anything between Rs 3 and 5 lakh and these are the people who have not allowed the party to come into power in Gujarat for the past 25 years,” he wrote.
Chovatiya, who has marked a copy to the leader of opposition, Paresh Dhanani and the in-charge of Gujarat, Rajiv Satav, also wrote that his earlier representation regarding these allegations fell on deaf ears at the state level.
Talking to TOI, Chovatiya, a former trustee of Khodaldham and a current committee member of the trust, said, “I tendered my resignation to the party president. I was with the party for the last 20 years and had joined as NSUI member. I represented about tickets being sold by the leaders, but nobody heard me.”