INDORE: Congress on Wednesday released its fifth list for the assembly election from which Vyapam whistleblower Dr Anand Rai 's name was missing.Dr Rai alleged that despite being promised a ticket by Rahul Gandhi , he was sidelined."My work was to be an intermediate between Congress and JAYS and I was successful in getting Hiralal Alawa a ticket," Anand Rai told TOI.He claimed that since he was from Rahul Gandhi's pavillion, all the senior Congress leaders like Kamal Nath and Digvijaya Singh were strongly against giving ticket to him."I am very vocal about the issues. They did not want a candidate like me," said Rai.Rai claimed that till late evening he was in talks with the leaders in Delhi who claimed that they were not able to give him a ticket because they had not received a confirmation about his resignation. "I had already spoken to the returning officer about it and this was no reason to deny a ticket to me," he said.He said, "I was promised a ticket by Rahul Gandhi but did not get it. I was, however, successful in preventing Pankaj Sanghvi from getting a ticket from Indore-V. 36 of Sanghvi's employees have been booked in Vyapam scam ," Rai told TOI.

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