Ahead of the Rajasthan assembly elections, the Congress party has expelled as many as 50 of its leaders from within the state following their open protest against candidates who had been granted a ticket by the party.
According to sources, the decision to expel the leaders for a six-year term was mandated by Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, the state Congress in charge. Prior to the action, Randhawa had issued a warning to the protesting leaders, urging them to refrain from disrupting party cohesion.
Earlier this month, pockets of the state witnessed unrest as disgruntled Congress leaders and their supporters expressed their dissatisfaction over the denial of tickets in the fourth list of Congress candidates, India Today reported.
Street protests, tyre burnings, effigy burnings, and sit-ins were among the tactics employed, with some Congress leaders resigning from their party posts.
Here’s the list of expelled leaders:
Joharilal Meena
Rahul Kumar Meena
Sheela Meena
Gopal Baheti
Karuna Ashok Chandak
Govind Sharma
Om Bishnoi
Sunil Parihar
Rakesh Boyat
Naresh Kumar Meena
Azizuddin Azad
Gopal Gurjar
Habibur Rahman Khan Ashrafi
Fateh Khan
Rajkaran Chaudhary
Kailash Meena
Devram Rot
Mahendra
Virendra Beniwal
Ramchandra Saradhana
Bhimsahan Gurjar
Surgyan Singh Ghausalya
Harikishan Tiwari
Raghav Ram Meena
Kalpana
Ramniwas Goyal
Khiladi Lal Bairava
Ramlal Meghwal
Vishesh Kumar Meena
Pannalal Dodiyar
Balram Yadav
Ganesh Raj Bansal
Dr. Shamsher Ali Sayyed
Anjali Yadav
Simrat Sandhu
Meenu Saini
Satyanarayan Vishnoi
Wajid Khan
Revatram Panwar
Lachharam Badharada
Ajay Trivedi
Umardraj
Dr. Vikram Singh Gurjar
Ashok Khandpa Meghwal
Brijesh Jatav
Disciplinary actions have also been initiated against Anandi Ram Khatik from Kapasan, Dr Param Navdeep Singh from Sangriya, Mahesh Mordia from Dhod, and Prahlad Narayan Bairwa from Niwai.
The state Congress’s actions come in anticipation of the upcoming assembly elections scheduled for November 25. The election results will be declared on December 3.