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Maya expels MP for defending Modi
The Bahujan Samaj Party on Wednesday expelled its Lok Sabha MP from Hamirpur Vijay Bahadur Singh for defending Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi
Written by Express News Service
Lucknow | July 18, 2013 04:15 AM IST
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The Bahujan Samaj Party on 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 partys ideology and principles.
In a statement from New Delhi,BSP national secretary R Shridhar said that party president Mayawati had already served the last warning to Singh through the media on Sunday to follow the party discipline. She had also sought to distance the BSP from Singhs 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. He was also not given any organisational responsibility and he was not named candidate for the coming Lok Sabha elections, 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.
The BSP had condemned Modis puppy analogy.
Singh,who had won in 2009 from Hamirpur Lok Sabha seat,has been denied a ticket for the Lok Sabha election by the BSP,which had named former MLA Rakesh Goswami as its candidate.
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