BJP expels ex-MLA

In a bid to check growing dissidence in Hazaribag, the BJP has expelled former Ramgarh MLA Shankar Chaudhary.

In a bid to check growing dissidence in Hazaribag where External Affairs minister Yashwant Sinha contesting against a united opposition candidate Bhubaneswar Prasad Mehta of the CPI, the BJP has expelled former Ramgarh MLA Shankar Chaudhary.

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Decision to this effect was taken after Chaudhary had been allegedly involved in anti-party activity, BJP spokesman Uma Shankar Kedia said here yesterday.

Chaudhary became the third BJP leader to get the axe after a similar punishment was meted out to rebel candidate Mahavir Lal Vishwakarma and former Hazaribag district president K P Sharma a few days ago.