THE JHARKHAND STORY DESK
Bhubaneswar, May 4: The Congress candidate for the Puri Lok Sabha constituency, Sucharita Mohanty, withdrew her candidacy, claiming that the party had failed to provide her with financial support.
After announcing her withdrawal from the candidacy, Mohanty told ANI, “I have returned the ticket because the party was not able to fund me. Another reason is that in some of the seats in seven Assembly segments, winnable candidates have not been given the ticket. Instead, some weak candidates got the ticket. I couldn’t contest like this.”
On Friday, in a letter addressed to party general secretary KC Venugopal, Mohanty expressed that her campaign in the Puri constituency had been severely affected by a shortage of funds. She further mentioned that her attempts to raise funds through public donations had yielded minimal results.
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“Our campaign in the Puri Parliamentary constituency has been hit hard because the party has denied me funding. AICC Odisha in-charge Ajoy Kumar ji categorically asked me to fend for myself. I was a salaried professional journalist who entered electoral politics 10 years ago. I have given all I have into my campaign in Puri. I tried a public donation drive to support my campaign for progressive politics without much success so far. I also tried to cut down the projected campaign spending to the minimum,” she mentioned in her letter.
Sucharita has been nominated to contest for the Puri Lok Sabha seat, where her opponents include BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra and Arup Patnaik, a former Mumbai Police Commissioner running for the BJD.
