NCP pulls up rebel MLA

The NCP has issued showcause notice to its Jharkhand MLA Kamlesh Singh for initiating action for his disqualification from the state Assembl...

The NCP has issued showcause notice to its Jharkhand MLA Kamlesh Singh for initiating action for his disqualification from the state Assembly under the anti-defection law.

A lone NCP member of the Assembly, Singh was elected from the Hussainabad constituency with a margin of only 35 votes. Once elected, he was wooed by both the Congress-JMM alliance and the BJP-JD(U) combine for support. Singh first took oath as a minister in the Shibu Soren government and later in the Arjun Munda government.

Earlier the NCP high command issued him a whip to back Soren in the Assembly, Singh got himself admitted to a hospital claiming a heart trouble and avoided taking oath as an MLA and also stayed away from the election of Speaker.

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According to a party spokesman, general secretary Tariq Anwar pointed out to Singh that by joining the Munda government he had ‘‘voluntarily given up’’ the party membership, which would render him disqualified. Anwar told Singh n case, he still resigned from the Munda Government and voted against it in the assembly, the move undertaken by would be dropped.

NCP leader in ‘dance bar deal’ expelled

Mumbai: The NCP on Friday expelled one of its functionaries whose name cropped up for allegedly trying to strike a Rs 12-crore deal with State Bar Owners Association chief Manjitsingh Sethi to help lift the ban on dance bars.

Vilas Satnam was expelled on the charge of anti-party activities, ncp sources said, adding the action was taken after his name figured in the allegations made by Sethi. The latter had claimed that Satnam allegedly demanded Rs 12 crore on behalf of Deputy CM R.R. Patil to withdraw the ban. Satnam allegedly took Sethi to the NCP office to strike the deal and had him meet a contractor. Although the deal never materialised, Sethi blew the lid off. —PTI

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