Build does not trigger with Inverse strategy and Github plugin trigger enabled

The Job configured with "Inverse" strategy and triggered when a push to Github stops working after I upgraded Jenkins from 1.625.3 to 2.19.1 LTS where the git plugin was upgraded to 3.0.0

The previous settings:
Git plugin : 2.4.4
Git client plugin: 1.19.6
Git server plugin: 1.6
GitHub API plugin: 1.72
GitHub plugin: 1.17.1
GitHub Pull Request Builder: 1.31.2

works fine with Inverse strategy and GitHub trigger.

The jenkins log shows the Github webhook is triggered and the job is poked:

Oct 14, 2016 2:49:43 PM org.jenkinsci.plugins.github.webhook.subscriber.DefaultPushGHEventSubscriber onEvent
INFO: Received POST for https://cto-github.cisco.com/NFV-BU/github-demo
Oct 14, 2016 2:49:43 PM org.jenkinsci.plugins.github.webhook.subscriber.DefaultPushGHEventSubscriber$1 run
INFO: Poked Rally-Github-Jenkins-Integration » github-demo-build

However, the build never triggers.

-Indra