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Former Mumbai Congress president Sanjay Nirupam was expelled from the party's primary membership on Wednesday for six years for 'indiscipline' and 'anti-party statements'...
"Taking note of the complaints of indiscipline and anti-party statements, the Congress president has approved the expulsion of Sanjay Nirupam from the party for a period of six years with immediate effect," a letter issued by Congress general secretary KC Venugopal stated...
The former MP, who had represented both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, was expelled from the Congress days after he hit out at his party leadership amid seat-sharing talks with Shiv Sena (UBT) for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections...
Nirupam, a former MP from Mumbai North, had hit out at the state leadership of Congress soon after Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena declared its candidates for four out of six Lok Sabha seats in Mumbai, including the Mumbai North West seat, which he is eyeing...
"Accepting the Shiv Sena (UBT's) decision to unilaterally field candidates in Mumbai amounted to allowing the destruction of Congress," he had said.. Nirupam faced defeat in the 2014 elections in the same constituency, running against the BJP's Gopal Shetty..
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