Severe differences over CPI(M)’s alliance with Congress in the West Bengal assembly polls came to the fore today, with the major left party expelling a senior member of its Central Committee who claimed she had opposed the tie-up. The first Central Committee (CC) meeting, held here after the rout in West Bengal with the left Front coming third after TMC and Congress, saw a large chunk of its members opposing the tie-up, a line which was defended by the top brass and the party expelling CC member and AIDWA General Secretary Jagmati Sangwan for “gross indiscipline”.
In a statement ahead of an official briefing on the three-day CC meeting, the party said “the Central Committee of the CPI(M) now in session in New Delhi has decided to expel Jagmati Sangwan (member of the Central Committee) from the primary membership of the Party for gross indiscipline.”