Sanjay Jha suspended from Congress for 'anti-party activities'

Mumbai: Sanjay Jha has been suspended from the Congress, with immediate effect, for "anti-party activities and breach of discipline".

The notice, issued late Tuesday by Maharashtra Congress and signed by Balasaheb Thorat, chief of the party's state unit, came shortly after Mr Jha appeared on NDTV's "Left, Right and Centre".

"Nothing surprises me. What are the anti-party activities I indulged in? The least the Congress could have done was to approach me," Mr Jha told NDTV in his immediate reaction to the suspension.

"We are showing an extremely intolerant culture," he said, adding, "I've always maintained that until we get our internal democracy right we will struggle to become a serious political contestant to the BJP".