BJP UP expels 87 party leaders and workers

UP Govt expels 87 party leaders and workers (Image: AP/File)

Lucknow: In a major move, Uttar Pradesh’s  ruling Bharatiya Janta Party on Thursday expelled 87 party leaders and workers for “anti-party activities”. The duration of the expulsion would be six years. Uttar Pradesh unit of Bharatiya Janta Party’s disciplinary committee initiated an investigation on all the leaders and once the results were out, this extreme step was taken. State General Secretary Vidya Sagar Sonkar said “the action was taken following a probe by the disciplinary committee of the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party”. As per the reports, the expelled leaders and workers had either contested against the BJP candidates in assembly elections or backed the opposition, he added. The expulsion was cleared by state President Keshav Prasad Maurya. Prominent among those sacked are Kapil Dev Kori (Rampur), V.K. Saini (Moradabad), Inderdev Singh (Bijnore), Shanti Swaroop Sharma (Bulandshahr), Chandra Shekhar Rawat (Hathras), Ashish Vashishtha (Baghpat) and Pratibha Singh, Mahesh Narayan Tiwari, Nirmal Srivastava, Vaibhav Pandey and Vidyabhushan Dwivedi from Gonda.