All posts tagged: party discipline

Ex-MLA removed from AIADMK amid row over BJP’s 3-language campaign | Latest News India

Ex-MLA removed from AIADMK amid row over BJP’s 3-language campaign | Latest News India

Mar 07, 2025 01:13 PM IST The move comes soon after K S Vijaykumar lent his support to the BJP campaign for a 3-language policy in Tamil Nadu AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Friday removed former legislator, K S Vijayakumar, from the party’s primary membership and all other posts he held for violation of party discipline. Representational image: A former AIADMK MLA was removed from the party for supporting the BJP’s 3-language campaign in Tamil Nadu(PTI) Also Read: Demanding linguistic equality is not chauvinism, says Stalin The action against Vijayakumar comes close on the heels of him reportedly favouring the 3-language policy and affixing his signature in support of a BJP campaign in this regard. Also Read: ‘Delusional’: BJP fires back at Tamil Nadu CM Stalin over ‘LKG’ remark amid NEP, Hindi row In a party release, Palaniswami said Vijayakumar, belonging to Tiruvallur North District, acted against the party’s ideology and priniciples and violated party discipline and hence he is removed from the party and cadres shall not have any contact with him. …

TMC suspends Rajya Sabha ex-MP Santanu Sen, and ex-MLA Arabul Islam | Kolkata News

TMC suspends Rajya Sabha ex-MP Santanu Sen, and ex-MLA Arabul Islam | Kolkata News

The Trinamool Congress has suspended its former Rajya Sabha MP Santanu Sen and former Bhangar MLA Arabul Islam for allegedly breaching party discipline and engaging in anti-party activities, senior party sources said Friday. TMC vice-president and spokesperson Jay Prakash Majumder confirmed to The Indian Express that the two were suspended. Santanu Sen is known to be close to the party’s all-India general secretary and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee. Sen told reporters, “They should say what anti-party activities I was engaged in or what discipline I breached. I challenge them to prove it… What did I do wrong?” The former Rajya Sabha member had also been the head of the Rogi Kalyan Samiti in Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College Hospital, but was removed the post. After last year’s rape-murder in R G Kar that rocked West Bengal, Sen has been vocal against a section of party leaders as well as police and administration. A doctor by profession, Sen had been made a member of Rajya Sabha from West Bengal by the TMC in 2018. …