lucknow the list of disgruntled in the congress camp grew on monday with dal chand verma another old timer from jalaun joining protests against the entry and candidature of outsiders in the party verma who joined former state general secretary shyamlal pujari in alleging that aicc general secretary madhusudan mistry had accepted cash for distributing lok sabha tickets said on monday that rahul gandhis diktat to promote party loyalists was being openly flouted verma who arrived in lucknow from orai began his protest outside the up congress committee office here this tradition of cash for ticket has completely destroyed the party from within senior party leaders just dont realise how badly the party is being damaged he said pujari who has also been on a hunger strike to protest the candidature of narendra gautam from the mohanlalganj reserved parliamentary constituency in up was expelled by the congress on sunday a truculent pujari however reiterated that mistry had taken money from people against candidature pujari said there are seats in up that have been given to sureshot losers mistry has struck a deal with the bjp to ensure that rahul gandhi does not become pm staging a sitin outside the party office since sunday pujari is now demanding a rajya sabha or a lok sabha seat the dalit leader also said the party was now demanding that he tender a written apology to mistry in order to have his expulsion revoked what sense does it make for me to tender an apology when i am not longer a part of the congress i am only sitting here to protect the party from evil internal forces not for any antiparty activity