Nagpur, May 15: The Shiv Sena has expelled its two former Nagpur city unit chiefs Kishore Parate and Praveen Barde for disrupting the felicitation function of Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Nirupam here last evening, party sources said today. The duo along with their supporters had disrupted the felicitation function of Nirupam on his being appointed ‘Samparak Pramukh’ of the city protesting the removal of Parate, a former corporator from the presidentship of the local unit.
They contended that they were party loyalists since many years and Parate's removal was ‘unjust’. Nirupam maintained that Parate was removed after hearing party observers, the sources said.
Chairs were hurled and members clashed on the dais, where Nirupam along with Subodh Mohite, MP and Ashish Jaiswal, MLA were occupying seats. The function ended abruptly without the felicitation as Nirupam and others left the stage.
Sena had fielded Barde from east-Nagpur assembly constituency seat twice against five time MLA Satish Chaturvedi of Congress, who is now labour minister.
Barde was also nominated as a candidate for the state legislative council but fell short of criteria in the age group when he was the second president of Sena unit here during initial days of the party's entry into Vidarbha region in general and Nagpur in particular. Bureau Report