Chhattisgarh’s main Opposition Congress which is desperate to return to power after 15 years in the mineral-rich State, sacked a senior party leader and former MLA Novel Verma on Tuesday on charges of anti-party activities.
Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee Chief Bhupesh Baghel has issued an order to this effect.
Novel Verma was acting as a rebel after party denied him ticket from Chandrapur assembly constituency and his wife is contesting as an Independent candidate from the constituency in this election.
Congress informed that he was expelled from the party on allegations that he was working against the interests of party’s official candidate from Chandrapur.
Novel Verma along with Nitesh Verma were expelled from the Congress for the period of six years.
Notably, Novel Verma was for the first time elected as a Congress legislator from the Chandrapur constituency during undivided Madhya Pradesh in 1993. When he was denied ticket in 2003, he fought the election as Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) candidate and won the election.
In last assembly elections held in 2013, he again fought with NCP ticket and lost polls.
