Kolkata, April 29: The Samajwadi Party today expelled ousted rebel leader Amar Singh’s loyalist and president of the party’s Bengal unit Vijay Upadhyay.
The All India general secretary of the SP and West Bengal Fisheries Minister Kiranmoy Nanda said in a statement here that Vijay Singh Bhaduria has been nominated as president of the West Bengal unit of the SP.
Upadhyay told PTI he had already resigned from the post of the state president and left the party after SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav’s barb against expelled party leader Amar Singh early this year.
–Agencies