New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday expelled eight of its Lok Sabha MPs for either cross-voting or abstaining during the confidence vote in Parliament on Tuesday.
The expelled MPs are Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, Somabhai Patel, K Manjunath and H T Sangliana (for cross-voting), as also Manorama Madhwaraj, Chandrabhan Singh, Harising Rathod and Babubhai Katara (for abstaining), BJP president Rajnath Singh announced at a press conference here.
The decision to expel the MPs was taken at a high-level meeting earlier in the day at the residence of leader of opposition and senior BJP leader L K Advani. Addressing the press conference, Advani said, "Had the cross-voting not taken place, the UPA government would not have won."
