CPI(M) Leader Jagmati Sangwan Expelled Over Left-Congress Tie-Up

The Central Committee claims she was expelled over “gross indiscipline”.

Women’s rights activist and CPI(M) leader Jagmati Sangwan. (Photo: Twitter @manoramaonline)

• Severe differences over CPI(M)’s alliance with the Congress in the West Bengal assembly polls came to the fore on Monday, with the major Left party expelling a senior member of its Central Committee who claimed she opposed the tie-up.
  
  
• The first Central Committee (CC) meeting 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”. However, Sangwan maintained she announced in the meeting itself that she was quitting the party and all posts.
  
  
• For the past two days, the CPI(M) CC has been focussing its discussion on the West Bengal results and alliance with the Congress, besides considering review reports on its performance in the recent assembly polls in five states.
  
  

(With agency inputs)