The entrepreneur-turned-politician's suspension from the Congress comes weeks after he wrote a newspaper article critical of the country's oldest political party.
Sanjay Jha was earlier sacked from the post of Congress spokesperson. (File pic)Congress leader and former spokesperson Sanjay Jha has been suspended for “anti-party activities and breach of discipline”, the party’s Maharashtra unit said on Tuesday.
The entrepreneur-turned-politician’s suspension from the Congress comes weeks after he wrote a newspaper article critical of the country’s oldest political party.
“Jha has been suspended with immediate effect for anti-party activities and breach of discipline”, Maharashtra Congress chief Balasaheb Thorat declared in a statement.
Thorat is also a minister in the state, where the Congress is part of the Shiv Sena-led ruling coalition.
Soon after the article appeared in a leading English daily last month, the Congress had removed Jha as a party
spokesperson.
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