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Newly formed IVP removes councillor over cross-voting
New Delhi: Following
BJP
's move to remove a councillor for "anti-party activities", Indraprastha Vikas Party (IVP) also took a similar action against one of its members. The party announced on Friday that Ashok Pandey, a councillor representing Vikas Nagar ward, was removed from the party for six years due to cross-voting during the ward committee elections in
Municipal Corporation of Delhi
.
IVP contested for the chairman's post in two zones, West and Rohini, but lost in both. It even had a majority in Rohini zone with BJP's support. Sources said Pandey, who contested for the chairman's seat in West zone, did not vote for himself.
Party functionary Hemchand Goyal indicated in a statement that its councillors were working to resume development projects halted in various wards. He emphasised that the party would not accept any action by any member or municipal councillor that interferes with these development initiatives.
"This decision was taken unanimously in a meeting after it was confirmed that Pandey was working against the policies of the party in the past few days. The policies of our party are clear that if any other party talks about any scheme for the welfare of the people of Delhi and development of Delhi, we will support it," Goyal pointed out. "In the last two and a half years, the condition of works related to MCD had deteriorated.
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Hence, we are wholeheartedly focusing only on works related to the development of the wards," he added.
Calling himself the victim of a conspiracy, Pandey, who was among the 15 municipal councillors who resigned from AAP to form IVP on May 17, said, "Never ever in the history has it happened that a candidate contesting an election has voted against himself or herself. All allegations of anti-party activities are wrong and I have been framed."
Pandey claimed that after the zonal elections, he himself had expressed his doubt about cross-voting by some other councillor to senior party functionaries, including president Mukesh Goel. "However, instead of going into details, they targeted me and expelled me from the party wrongfully. I have not decided my next move."
On June 9, BJP expelled Suman Tinku Rajora, a councillor from Mangolpuri-B, for six years over alleged anti-party activities during a vote in Rohini zone on June 2.
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