National

Ramjethmalani files defamation case against BJP over his expulsion from party

New Delhi: Senior advocate Ram Jethmalani on Friday filed a civil defamation case against the BJP parliamentary board in the Delhi High Court over his expulsion from the party on May 28.
Jethmalani demanded Rs 50 lakh in damages jointly from the board members, barring Narendra Modi and the ailing Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He asked the court to declare the board’s decision “null and void”.
Girish Katpalia, a joint registrar of the Delhi High Court, on Friday recused himself from hearing the case, citing personal reasons.
The parliamentary board is the Bharatiya Janata Party’s highest decision making body and has 12 members: Rajnath Singh, L K Advani, Vajpayee, Modi, Murli Manohar Joshi, Nitin Gadkari, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Ananth Kumar, M Venkaiah Naidu, Ramlal and T C Gehlot.
Vajpayee did not attend the board meetings while Modi was not a member then. Jethmalani was expelled from the primary membership of the party for six years for openly attacking Swaraj and Jaitley.

 

Show More

Related Articles

Back to top button

Adblock Detected

Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker