The Delhi BJP on Saturday expelled 21 members, including five sitting councillors, from the party for six years for allegedly being involved in anti-party activites ahead of the MCD polls on April 23. Party leader and former Delhi University Students’ Union president Manoj Chaudhary has been also been expelled, Delhi BJP media in-charge Praveen Shankar Kapoor said. Read moreThe BJP, ahead of this year’s polls to the three civic bodies in the national capital, has decided not to give tickets to all its sitting councillors in the three corporations. A couple of sitting councillors have switched over to Congress in revolt against the party’s decision. Meanwhile, some Congress workers and a candidate of AAP in MCD bypolls last year, Sunita Tokas, joined the BJP on Sunday.

Source: Hindustan Times April 15, 2017 16:30 UTC