The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has expelled its State Executive Committee member Srikar Prabhu, while relieving advocate P.P. Hegde from all party responsibilities saying they had indulged in anti-party activities.
The party’s district unit president Pratham Simha Nayak said Mr. Prabhu had been expelled from the party for six years and an order to this effect had been received from the State unit of the party. Mr. Hegde was only relieved of his post, he said. He could be nominated in February as special invitee member of BJP national security cell.
Mr. Nayak said the actions of the two since the selection of incumbent MP Nalin Kumar Kateel as the party’s nominee for the 16 Lok Sabha elections till recently were against the interests of the party.
Declining to give details, he said the issues had been highlighted by the press already.
Mr. Kateel had filed a complaint at the Bunder police station against Mr. Hegde in connection with alleged illegal collection of records pertaining to certain calls made by him. Mr. Hegde had termed the allegation as baseless.
‘Never a member’Mr. Hegde said he had never become member of the BJP. The party president Rajnath Singh included him as a Member of the National Executive of the Security Cell .
“I do not want any post. I had wholeheartedly worked for the party during the election,” he said in a press release.
