The Bharatiya Janata Party has expelled more than 40 of its members for six years for contesting against the official party candidates in the urban local body elections and for anti-party activities. The BJP state general secretary Naresh Bansal informed that as per the party state president Ajay Bhatt’s orders, those expelled from the party include rebels contesting the local body polls in municipal corporations of Dehradun and Kotdwar in addition to 15 municipal councils and eight Nagar Panchayats.
Those expelled in Dehradun include Manit Walia, Premlata Bisht, Trilochan, Rishi Thapa, Vinod Dhyani, Varsha Badoni, Navnit Kala, Sanjay Bahuguna, Vinod Negi, Sushma Kukreti, Abhishek Pant, Kavindra Semwal, Gajendra Negi, Ajay Sharma, Amit Verma, Anup Saxena, Kuldeep Kapur and Anurag Gupta while those expelled in Kotdwar include Vibha Chauhan, Shashi Nainwal, Sudha Sati and Dhirendra Chauhan.