New Delhi, 24 March 2014

The Janata Dal United on Monday expelled party leader Sabir Ali for praising BJP’s PM candidate Narendra Modi. Ali had reportedly praised the policies of Narendra Modi. Ali, whose tenure in the upper house ends in April, was earlier denied a berth in the house by the party.

“Modi’s policies (in Gujarat) are good and Modi’s work for development is also laudable,” Ali told the media here.

He added that “small parties” — he did not name any — were trying to cheat Muslims in the name of secularism. “But Muslims will not get trapped in this game this time.”

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