New Delhi: In the continuing war between rival factions, the JD(S) today suspended senior leader Surendra Mohan while revoking the supsension of Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy and 39 MLAs for forming a coalition government in Karnataka with BJP.

Today's decision deepening the crisis in the party was taken at a four-hour long meeting of the National Executive of JD(S) held at the residence of former Prime Minister and party chief H D Deva Gowda here.

The action against Mohan comes in the wake of the rebel faction owing loyalty to Veerendrakumar electing him as president after removing Gowda from the top organisational post. Veerendrakumar and prominent rebel leader P G R Scindia were suspended from the party last week.

The Executive, however, did not take action against other leaders who attended the rebel meeting in Thiruvananthapuram last Friday. Today's meeting referred the matter to the party disciplinary panel.

The decision to revoke the suspension of Kumaraswamy and 39 MLAs were taken after the disciplinary panel accepted the legislators explanation detailing the"compelling" reasons which prompted them to take such an action, Gowda told reporters here.

"Kumaraswamy took the decision to align with BJP to save the party from the 'evil designs of the Congress' along with whom they were sharing power in the state," he said.