BSP MP expelled for defending Modi

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Wednesday expelled its Lok Sabha MP from Hamirpur Vijay Bahadur Singh for defending Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his “puppy remarks”,saying the unauthorised statements went against the party’s ideology and principles.

In a statement from New Delhi,BSP national secretary R Shridhar said party president Mayawati had already served the last warning to Singh through the media Sunday to follow the party discipline. She had also sought to distance the BSP from Singh’s remarks on Modi,describing them as his personal statements. “The BSP leadership had been receiving reports about unauthorised statements by Singh and he was asked several times to mend his ways,” Shridhar said in the statement.

Last Saturday,Singh had said,“He (Modi) is just showing his sensitivity and did not compare the puppy with any community. These are other people who are claiming Modi compared puppy to a community in order to create a controversy.”