Expelled BSP MLA N Mahesh said on Wednesday his expulsion from the party for abstaining from voting in favour of Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy was an outcome of a “communication gap” between him and the party leadership because he does not know anything about Twitter.
Soon after the HD Kumaraswamy Government lost the majority in the floor test in the Assembly on Tuesday, BSP supremo Mayawati expelled him from the party. “Our party MLA N Mahesh has violated the high command’s direction to vote in favour of Kumaraswamy by abstaining from voting, which is indiscipline.
Defending himself, Mahesh said, “Our party’s Karnataka in-charge and Rajya Sabha member Ashok Siddharth had told me to remain neutral after talking to Behen Mayawati,” Mahesh said at a Press conference here. Since he did not know anything about Twitter, he was unaware that Mayawati had directed him through her Tweet to support the Kumaraswamy Government.
“I don’t know anything about Twitter or anything like that. Hence, I came to know (about expulsion) when I was on my way to Bengaluru. My expulsion was due the communication gap. I feel that in the coming days, it will be rectified,” he said.