The Bihar unit of Congress on Wednesday expelled four rebel MLCs, including former Bihar Congress president Ashok Choudhary for alleged anti-party activities. All four former Congressmen, led by Ashok will join Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United).
The other members who have been expelled are Dilip Chaudhury, Tanvir Akhtar and Ram Chandra Bharti.
“People like us who worked for the party were sidelined. The four of us have decided that we are bidding goodbye to the party and going to JD(U),” Ashok said.
Today, we are conferring International Gandhi Award-2017 on two outstanding personalities, Dr MD Gupte and Dr Atul Shah, for their selfless and humanitarian services in the cause of elimination of leprosy and in alleviating the suffering of leprosy-affected patients. Leprosy has been prevalent in our country since a very long time...
Rights Activist Srikumar Mahanta has urged the Union Home Ministry for an impartial investigation into the 12-year-old Sumanta Mahar murder that occurred at Mahibala village under Boudh district’s Kantamal block on February 2. Sumanta, a Class-VII student of the Project Upper Primary School, was allegedly killed by some persons in a jungle on the day...