India, Aug. 3 -- The All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Sunday night suspended former Datia MLA Rajendra Bharti from the party's primary membership, just a day before the results of the Datia Assembly by-election conducted on July 30.

The order, issued by AICC general secretary and Madhya Pradesh in-charge Harish Chaudhary, said, "with the approval of the president of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), Mallikarjun Kharge, Rajendra Bharti, former MLA from Datia, is hereby suspended from the primary membership of the Indian National Congress with immediate effect."

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Bharti had defeated former home minister Narottam Mishra in the 2023 assembly election. However,...