New Delhi : Congress on Tuesday expelled six MLAs including one from Amethi who cross voted in the Rajya Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh against party candidate Kapil Sibal last week. The MLAs who have been expelled for six years are Sanjay Pratap Jayaswal (Basti district), Madhuri Verma (Bahraich), Vijay Dube (Kushinagar), Mohammed Muslim (Tiloi-Amethi), Dil Nawaz Khan (Bulandshahar) and Nawab Kasim Ali Khan (Rampur).
AICC general secretary Janardan Dwivedi announced the decision in presence of senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad who was the party’s authorised representative in the RS elections in UP. Sibal edged past Preeti Mahapatra, put up by BJP in the cliffhanger and secured his RS berth with support from other parties.
With only 25 first preference votes to his credit and his final tally adding up to 34, Sibal fared only marginally better than his MLC colleague Deepak Singh.
