{"id":327536,"date":"2020-10-13T13:48:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T13:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327536"},"modified":"2020-10-13T13:48:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T13:48:46","slug":"bihar-janata-dal-united-expels-15-leaders-for-anti-party-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bihar-janata-dal-united-expels-15-leaders-for-anti-party-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihar: Janata Dal (United) expels 15 leaders for anti-party activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-309508 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/nitish-kumar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/nitish-kumar.jpg 578w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/nitish-kumar-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/>The Janata Dal (United) on Tuesday expelled 15 of its leaders including an MLA, former MLAs and former ministers from the party for indulging in anti-party activities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Among those sacked from the party are Dadan Singh Yadav, Rameshwar Paswan, Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha, Kanchan Kumari Gupta, Sumit Singh, Ranvijay Singh besides others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This came just days before the Bihar Assembly polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Monday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) expelled the rebels who quit the party to join Chirag Paswan&#8217;s Lok Janshakti Party (LJP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">LJP earlier announced that it will not contest the Bihar assembly elections under the leadership of Nitish Kumar\u2019s JD(U). However, they had not ruled out the possibility of forming a BJP-LJP government in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">LJP also said that while it would field candidates against JD(U), it would not do so in seats where the BJP is contesting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The elections to elect 243-member Bihar assembly will take place in three phases. The first phase of elections will be held on October 28, the second phase on November 3 and the last phase of elections will be held on November 7. The results will be declared on November 10.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Janata Dal (United) on Tuesday expelled 15 of its leaders including an MLA, former MLAs and former ministers from the party for indulging in anti-party activities.\u00a0 Among those sacked from the party are Dadan Singh Yadav, Rameshwar Paswan, Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha, Kanchan Kumari Gupta, Sumit Singh, Ranvijay Singh besides others. This came just days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,1801,2014],"tags":[842,3530],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327537,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327536\/revisions\/327537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}