BJP – the ruling party in Uttar Prdesh has expelled 87 party leaders and workers for six years for "anti-party activities", a senior party leader said on Thursday, May 11.
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According to the UP general secretary Vidya Sagar Sonkar, the party leaders were expelled after the disciplinary committee brought the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party under its scanner. The expelled leaders and workers had either contested against the BJP candidates in assembly elections or backed the opposition, Sonkar added.
The expulsion was cleared by state President Keshav Prasad Maurya.
Among the leaders who got expelled are Kapil Dev Kori (Rampur), VK 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.
