NEW DELHI: Former Ruling Party of India Janata Dal Wednesday split formally at the organizational level with supporters of the expelled leader Ajit Singh electing him president of the rival group at a meeting of the “parallel national executive” in the Indian capital New Delhi.
Ajit Singh was the industry minister during November 89 and May 91 period when Janata Dal was in power. He was expelled from the party a couple of months back for alleged anti-party activities by party president S.R. Bommai.
Singh’s election as president of the breakaway faction of the Janta Dal was unanimous after his name was proposed by Rasheed Masood and seconded among others by M.S. Chandrawati Kailash Nath Singh Yadav Khurshid Ahmed and Satyapal Singh Yadav.
Claiming itself the “real” Janata Dal the “national executive” adopted unanimously a resolution on organizational structure recommending “disciplinary action against VP-Singh SR. Bommai Sharad Yadav Ram Vilas Paswan and others for ant-party activities. While Massod declined go into details of the MPs and MLAS and the exact number of the executive members who attended the meeting he said no Bihar Lok Sabha member attended the meeting for “strategic reasons.”
The meeting also adopted to separate resolutions on the political and economic situation.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 14, 1992
