BJP leaders served notice for c

KANPUR: The state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to initiate action against leaders who let down the party in recently held Legislative Assembly and civic elections.
According to sources, state office-bearers have issued notice to 26 leaders, while 16 leaders have been expelled. Among those to whom the notice has been issued five are high profile leaders who are likely to be expelled from the party.The sources added that as soon as these leaders got the news, they called on senior party leaders requesting them to convince the state office-bearers to reconsider their decision.
In the notices issued to 26 party workers, it has been stated that they worked against the party candidates and helped the rivals to post a win in the elections. Written complaints against them were submitted by the party candidates to the state office-bearers.The notice issued by Surendra Maithani, city BJP convener, had given 10 days time to the workers involved in anti-party activities to file their explanation failing which the party would be free to take action against them.
Deepu Pandey, Seema Tiwari,Anand Mishra, Awadhesh Pandey ,Prem Singh, Somnath Tiwari, Ram Shankar Agrahari,Vijay Rathore , Pramod Mishra and Rajkumar are among those against whom notices have been issued.