For the first time in recent years, the Congress party in Madhya Pradesh has played out a mass expulsion - ousting 39 leaders from the party at one shot ahead of the crucial assembly polls where the party hopes to destroy the BJP's fortress in the state. 

Madhya Pradesh is one among five states that will go for the assembly polls later this month and these states are witnessing a plethora of political campaigns between the rivals. In the midst of political tussle to the power, the Madhya Pradesh unit of the Congress party has expelled 39 leaders and the expulsion has come when the assembly polls are a fortnight away. 

These 39 leaders have been expelled from the party's primary membership for six years and on why they have shown the door, it has been reported that they were ousted from the party for contesting the upcoming state assembly polls against the party's official candidates. 

In a press release, Madhya Pradesh Congress unit's vice-president Rajiv Singh said that these 39 leaders were expelled from the Congress on the directives of the party's state unit chief Kamal Nath. According to PTI, these expelled leaders are contesting in the assembly polls either as independent candidates or on the ticket of the Bahujan Samaj Party, the Samajwadi Party and the Aam Aadmi Party. 

Some of the prominent expelled leaders include former MP Premchand Gudda, former MLA Antar Singh Darbar, former MLA Yadvendra Singh, state party spokesman Ajay Singh Yadav, and functionaries Nasir Islam and Amir Aqueel. The 230-member assembly of Madhya Pradesh will go for the assembly polls on November 17 and the results will be declared on December 3.