New Delhi: The Nationalist Congress Party on Wednesday suspended Padamsinh Patil, the MP who is accused of ordering a Congress leader’s murder six years ago.
Patil, MP from Osmanabad in Maharashtra, was suspended from the primary membership of the party, NCP leader and Aviation Minister Praful Patel announced in New Delhi.
Patil was arrested on Sunday by the Central Bureau Investigation (CBI) in connection with the killing of his cousin and Congress leader Pavan Raje Nimbalkar and his driver Samad Qazi in Navi Mumbai in 2006.
"We are not holding him guilty. But we would like to keep a distance as Patil faces the legal process. If he proves his innocence we will have no problem in taking him back," Patel said.
The party was following a convention that a person who is facing investigations in a criminal case should not be associated with the party, he said.
Patel said the NCP took time to suspend the MP because it “did not want to show a knee-jerk reaction towards a senior leader."
(With inputs from PTI and IANS. )
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