Agartala :The Tripura CPM expelled the 50 year old Agartala based local committee member Samar Acharjee after a local television channel showed him lying on stacks of currency notes, with wads of cash placed on his forehead and chest sources said.

Acharjee, member of the Bankumari local committee, had claimed the Rs 20 lakh worth of notes was his own money earned through his construction business and that he had done nothing wrong.

Samar Adhya, secretary of the CPMs Sadar divisional committee which oversees the Bankumari local committee, however, said Acharjee had been expelled for actions inconsistent with the party ideology.

He did not spell out whether the CPM considered the cash unaccounted for, or found Acharjees actions in the privacy of his bedroom unacceptable, or was punishing him for the embarrassment he seemed to have unwittingly caused the party.