JD(U) Chief Whip Shrawan Kumar in a letter to Speaker Udai Narayan Choudhary recommending cancelling the membership of the four dissident JD(U) MLAs - Gyanendra Singh Gyanu, Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Singh Babloo and Ravindra Rai.
They represent Barh assembly seat in Patna district, Ghosi in Jehanabad, Raghopur in Supual district and Mahua in Vaishali district respectively.
Shrawan Kumar, who is also state parliamentary affairs minister, told PTI that the activities of the four before the recent Rajya Sabha bypoll in the state suggest that they do not want to remain in JD(U) as whose members they were elected to the assembly.
Shrawan had made public yesterday names of 18 JD(U) dissidents against whom he had sent a report to party president Sharad Yadav, leader Nitish Kumar, state party chief Basistha Narayan Singh and Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi for initiating disciplinary action for acting against party direction in the RS bypoll.
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The 18 rebel MLAs are Gyanendra Kumar Gyanu, Raju Kumar Singh, Neeraj Kumar Singh, Ajit Kumar, Anil Kumar, Rahul Kumar, Madan Sahni, Devesh Prasad, Suresh Chanchal, Ravindra Rai, Jakir Hussain, Sanjay Kumar, Rajeshwar Raj, Sunil Kumar, Meena Dwivedi, Amla Devi, Poonam Devi and Sujata Devi.
Ravindra Rai, who had recently vented anger against Nitish Kumar in public, has been suspended by Sharad Yadav.