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Expulsion is CPM's 79th birthday 'gift' to Somnath

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Posted: Jul 23, 2008 at 1808 hrs IST

New Delhi, July 23: After being with the CPI-M for 40 years, it was not a birthday gift Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee would have exactly wished to get from the cadre-based party.

Chatterjee's 79th birthday falls this Friday but a painful irony stares at his face after he was expelled by the CPI-M today punished for his defiance.

Born on July 25, 1929 in Tezpur in Assam, the ten-time MP has always been somewhat of an outsider in the party.

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