Senior JD(S) leader C M Ibrahim suspended for anti-party activities

Senior JD(S) leader C M Ibrahim was on Friday suspended by the outfit's president H D Deve Gowda for ''anti-party activities''.

Gowda had replaced Ibrahim as the party state president on October 19 and appointed his son H D Kumaraswamy in his place.

Ibrahim had raised a banner of revolt against the JD(S) decision to join the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).

A former union minister, Ibrahim claimed that his faction is the original JD(S) for being secular and that being the state president he can take a decision about the outfit in Karnataka.

He had appealed to Deve Gowda to reconsider the decision on the tie-up with the BJP, claiming that many party leaders have quit the outfit in the neighbouring states following the move.