Taking note of complaints of indiscipline and anti-party statements, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge late Wednesday evening approved Nirupam’s expulsion from the party for six years with immediate effect.Nirupam, who was eyeing the Mumbai North West Lok Sabha constituency, was miffed with the party for allowing the Shiv Sena (UBT) to take the seat for the upcoming parliamentary polls.The demand for action against Nirupam grew after he castigated the Maharashtra Congress leadership for “ceding” constituencies in Mumbai to the Uddhav Thackeray-led party during seat-sharing talks of the MVA for the Lok Sabha elections.Nirupam on Thursday said what he spoke in public was not against the Congress, but he was asking the party not to surrender to the Shiv Sena (UBT).”Secularism doesn’t mean disregarding one’s own religion,” he said.”The Nehruvian secularism, which opposed religion and is under the Leftist influence, has expired,” Nirupam claimed.
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