CPIM expels Somnath Chatterjee from party

CPI-M expels Somnath Chatterjee from party Sourced from www.ibnlive.com Lok Sabha Speaker and Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Somnath Chatterjee has been expelled from his party. The CPI-M expelled Chatterjee on Wednesday for violating party discipline from the primary membership of the party, a post that he has been in for almost half a century. Chatterjee had been under intense pressure from the CPI-M to resign as the Lok Sabha Speaker after the party withdrew support to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government and even listed him as among the party Members of Parliament (MPs) when its submitted the withdrawal letter to President Pratibha Patil. Former Attorney General and noted jurist Soli Sorabjee clarified that despite his expulsion Chatterjee still remained the Speaker. "The Speaker was elected by the... [read full story]