Lucknow: Cracking the whip for losing
Lucknow (West) assembly seat in the recent by-elections,
Bahujan Samaj Party on Wednesday expelled three senior party leaders.
Those expelled include former Rajya Sabha MP Banwari Lal
Kanchal, Arun Shankar Shukla and Sandip Bansal on charges of
anti-party activities.
A release issued by the state unit president of BSP,
Swami Prasad Maurya here said that all the three have been
expelled for failing to ensure the victory of the BSP nominee
in the recent by-election on the Lucknow (West) seat.
Recalling the criminal history of Arun Shankar Shukla
alias Anna, Maurya said that he was given party ticket from
Unnao parliamentary seat earlier this year on the promise
that he would mend his ways, but that did not happen.
Kanchal and Sandip Bansal, who are also leaders of Udyog
Vypar Mandal instead of working for the party nominee kept at
loggerheads and indulged in anti-party activities, Maurya
said.
The ruling party had won all the assembly seats in
the recent by elections except for Lucknow west and Kolasala
seat.
Bureau Report
First Published: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 22:05