Summary:
Dehradun, Mar 15 (PTI) Senior Congress leader Harish Rawat Tuesday sought his own expulsion from the party, apparently upset after Uttarakhand Congress working president Ranjeet Rawat accused him of selling tickets for the assembly elections which the party lost badly.Rawat, who was the Congress"s campaign committee chairman, said the accusation became all the more serious because of the stature of the person making it and the one against whom it has been made.
"The charges are serious.
They become more serious considering the fact that the person against whom they have been levelled was chief minister, PCC president and AICC general secretary.
"Even the person levelling the allegations occupies a responsible position in the party.
The charges have been levelled against me.
I pray that I should be expelled from the party in the light of these charges," Rawat said in a Facebook post.