Maha Cong suspends Jha for anti-party activities

Mumbai, July 14 Congress leader and former spokesperson Sanjay Jha has been suspended for “anti-party activities and breach of discipline”, the party’s Maharashtra unit said on Tuesday. The entrepreneur-turned-politician’s suspension from the Congress comes weeks after he wrote a newspaper...

Tribune News Service

Updated At : 11:53 AM Jul 15, 2020 IST

Mumbai, July 14

Congress leader and former spokesperson Sanjay Jha has been suspended for “anti-party activities and breach of discipline”, the party’s Maharashtra unit said on Tuesday.

The entrepreneur-turned-politician’s suspension from the Congress comes weeks after he wrote a newspaper article critical of the country’s oldest political party.

“Jha has been suspended with immediate effect for anti-party activities and breach of discipline,” Maharashtra Congress chief Balasaheb Thorat said in a statement.

Thorat is also a minister in the state, where the Congress is part of the Shiv Sena-led ruling coalition.

Soon after the article appeared in a leading English daily last month, the Congress had removed Jha as a party spokesperson. PTI

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