NEW DELHI: India’s opposition Janata Dal party will take disciplinary action against its dissident leader Ajit Singh, party sources said. A later report says that Ajit Singh has been served with a show cause notice.
This follows submission of a report on his alleged “anti-party” activities by a two-member committee appointed by party president S R Bommai. Former home minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed and party spokesman Hari Kishore Singh were the members of the committee
While top party sources said action against Ajit Singh would be taken in a day or two they were not sure as to what it would be – whether suspension, expulsion or issue of a mere show-cause notice.
The committee is understood to have apprised Bommai of the alleged role of Ajit Singh in “pre- venting” party legislators from attending the legislature party meeting in Uttar Pradesh last week, at which the split in the state unit was formalized.
The meeting had been convened by Bommai to elect a new leader in place of Kailashnath Yadav, expelled from the party.
The two-member committee is also understood to have taken exception to Ajit Singh’s role despite the party president’s warning that any association with political actions of Kailashnath Yadav would invite disciplinary action as it would amount to anti- party activities.
The party has also taken a serious note of the reported meeting between Ajit Singh and former deputy prime minister Devi Lal, a couple of days ago, and the meeting of Kailasahnath Yadav and his supporters at Ajit Singh’s residence here Tuesday.
Article extracted from this publication >> December 20, 1991
