CPI-M expels party leader

New Delhi, June 20 The CPI-M on Monday announced it had expelled Jagmati Sangwan, a Central Committee member, "for gross indiscipline".

"The Central Committee now in session in New Delhi has decided to expel Sangwan from the primary membership of the party for gross indiscipline," the Communist Party of India-Marxist said in a brief statement.

The party did not say why Sangwan was expelled.