BENGALURU: Taking strong note of rebels, who are contesting the August 22 BBMP, the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president had sacked as many as 13 party members from the primary membership of the party, here on Wednesday.
According to a release, KPCC president G Parameshwars had stated that the stringent action had been taken against the party members, after they had refused to withdraw from the contest in favour of the party’s nominees.
The party members who were removed from the party are, Kamala Anjan, Deepa Chandrashekhar and Ayesh Begum (Rayapuram ward), Mamatha Savarana (Halasur), Sagar Sathish (Marappanapalya), Jayalakshmi (Mahalakshmipuram), Padmaprakash (Vrishabhavathinagar), Yelumalai (Sagayapuram), Asha Karthik (Vidyapeeta), Anand (Hoysalanagar), B N Kumar (Nandini Layout) and Amalanath (Okalipuram).
All the rebel members had been expelled from the primary membership of the party for six years, the release added.