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BJP expels six MLAs in Jammu
The Bharatiya Janata Party has asked the Jammu and Kashmir Speaker to disqualify six of the party's MLAs from the House for cross-voting in the Legislative Council polling as the party has expelled them for defying the party whip in the Assembly.
Those who have been expelled from the party with immediate effect are Bharat Bhushan, Gharu Ram Bhagat, Durga Das, Baldev Raj, Jagdish Sapolia and Lal Chand, State party spokesperson Nirmal Kamal told mediapersons on Friday.
Former BJP Legislature Party leader Chaman Lal Gupta has already been expelled from the primary membership of the party for six years for "gross indiscipline".
Gupta was expelled on May 31 after seven of the 11 BJP MLAs voted for the NC-Congress alliance candidates in the April 13 polling for the Upper House.
New BJP Legislature Party leader Jugal Kishore said the Speaker has already been approached to disqualify them from the membership of the House under the anti-defection law. "We have written to the Election Commission and the Speaker of JK
Assembly in this regard," Kamal told PTI.
The BJP had earlier suspended these seven MLAs from the party and referred the matter to its Central Disciplinary Action Committee.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has asked the Jammu and Kashmir Speaker to disqualify six of the party's MLAs from the House for cross-voting in the Legislative Council polling as the party has expelled them for defying the party whip in the Assembly.
Those who have been expelled from the party with immediate effect are Bharat Bhushan, Gharu Ram Bhagat, Durga Das, Baldev Raj, Jagdish Sapolia and Lal Chand, State party spokesperson Nirmal Kamal told mediapersons on Friday.
Former BJP Legislature Party leader Chaman Lal Gupta has already been expelled from the primary membership of the party for six years for "gross indiscipline".
Gupta was expelled on May 31 after seven of the 11 BJP MLAs voted for the NC-Congress alliance candidates in the April 13 polling for the Upper House.
New BJP Legislature Party leader Jugal Kishore said the Speaker has already been approached to disqualify them from the membership of the House under the anti-defection law. "We have written to the Election Commission and the Speaker of JK
Assembly in this regard," Kamal told PTI.
The BJP had earlier suspended these seven MLAs from the party and referred the matter to its Central Disciplinary Action Committee.
