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BJP expelled party leader Uma Bharti from the primary
membership for indiscipline and anti-party activities,
a week after the former CM was suspended for outbursts
against the party leadership and served a show-cause
notice to explain her conduct within 3 days.
The announcement was made by BJP spokesman Arun Jaitely
at a Press conference in New Delhi.
It took the BJP Parliamentary Board, the party's highest
decision making body, less than 20 minutes to seal the
fate of Bharti's two decades-old career in the saffron
party that included her chief ministership of Madhya
Pradesh and union ministership in the NDA government.
Chaired by party President L K Advani and attended
among others by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
and senior leader Murli Manohar Joshi, the Board considered
her reply on Sunday and her statements in the last few
days.
Jaitley said that the Parliamentary Board was of the
view that Bharti's activities and statements amounted
to indiscipline and anti-party activity. "It was
therefore decided to expel her from the primary membership
of the party."
He said that to divert the issue away, Bharati took
up many other issues, which are neither germane to the
notice nor true.
He asserted that the language used by her was "not
the language of dignified politics".
Reacting to her expulsion, Bharti continued her aggressive
approach questioning why disciplinary action was not
being taken against Advani for his utterances on Jinnah
which was against party ideologue and what India had
stood for.
She said she would "live and die in BJP"
and would appeal to the party's disciplinary committee
against the Parliamentary Board's decision.
The forty six year-old OBC leader, belonging to Lodh
Rajput community, is the second major leader after Kalyan
Singh to be expelled from the party in its new avatar
as BJP.
However, Kalyan Singh was taken back in the party
before 2005 Lok Sabha elections.
Last year on 10th November, she was suspended from
the party but it was revoked a month later after she
apologized.
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