New Delhi: BJP on Thursday issued a show cause notice to its suspended Darbhanga MP Kirti Azad, asking him as to why he should not be expelled from the party on the charges that he continued to indulge in anti-party activities through his relentless attack on Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the DDCA scam.

Nine days back, the party had suspended him alleging that he was indulging in anti-party activities by publicly taking on Arun Jaitley despite the fact that BJP president Amit Shah had cautioned him not to indulge in mud-slinging which is embarrassing to the organisation.

In the show-cause notice, the BJP has asked the former Test cricketer to reply in 10 days on why he should not be thrown out of the party.

After Azad was suspended on December 23, Advani, M M Joshi, Shanta Kumar and Yashwant Sinha had got together and expressed solidarity with the MP. They had also decided to take up his issue at the party platform since they were of the view that he was raising corruption matter in a sports body since years now.

In the suspension order, the BJP had accused him of “breaching party discipline conducted anti-party activities” over the past few months.

Taking note of his direct attack on Jaitley in the Lok Sabha at a time when Congress was also raising the DDCA issue in the just-held winter session, the suspension order had stated that “inside and outside Parliament you conducted yourself in a manner that amounts to indiscipline and anti-party activities. You made several statements to carry out a false propaganda. So the parliamentary board has suspended you from the party membership”.