Bihar MLA Anant Singh and his wife, former MLA Neelam Devi, have been expelled from the Janata Dal (United) for six years for anti-party activities. The order, issued on Saturday, cancels their primary membership with immediate effect.

The Mokama legislator is the latest high-profile figure to pay a price for defying the party high command. JD(U) is led by former Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, and the action against Singh has sent a clear signal through the party’s ranks.

Campaign against the party’s own candidate

The trigger was the Bihar Legislative Council election. Singh campaigned against JD(U) candidate Neeraj Kumar, directly working against the party’s pick in a contest that drew sharp attention across the state.

Singh did not stop at quiet opposition. He backed Jan Suraaj candidate Anuj Singh in the Patna Graduates constituency, and he openly challenged the party’s decision to support Neeraj Kumar.

Singh also pointed the finger at Kumar. He alleged that Neeraj Kumar had worked against him during last year’s assembly election. That charge, made in public, pushed the feud from internal grumbling into open revolt.

The murder remark that set off a storm

Singh’s conduct had already drawn headlines before the expulsion. He recently made a sensational claim that he had committed nine murders for Nitish Kumar when the leader was in trouble.

The statement did not hold. Singh later changed his version and shifted the blame onto Lalu Prasad. The reversal left the claim hanging over the party and its opponents alike, and it became part of the case the party built against him.

Singh said he had committed nine murders for Nitish Kumar when the leader was in trouble, then shifted the blame to Lalu.

That remark is the most dramatic element of the story, and it is the one most likely to keep this case in the national conversation. The sources do not provide any independent confirmation of the claim, and no details about the alleged killings appear in the reporting.

Timing of the expulsion

The timing is hard to miss. Bihar voted on Friday for eight Legislative Council seats. The party moved against Singh and his wife the very next day, sending a message that loyalty to the leadership would be enforced, even against a sitting legislator.

Neelam Devi, a former MLA, was expelled alongside her husband. Both were removed from the party for six years, and the orders took effect the same day they were issued.

A six-year ban is a long punishment. It effectively takes both of them out of JD(U) for the rest of the current political cycle, and it leaves Singh’s Mokama seat in a far more uncertain position.

Why this matters beyond Mokama

This is not a routine disciplinary action. A sitting MLA campaigned against an official party nominee, publicly rejected the party’s decision, and then made a shocking claim about violence tied to the party’s own leader. Each of those steps raised the stakes.

Political parties in Bihar have long dealt with factional fights, but open defiance of this kind is rarer. When a legislator challenges the leadership in an election and then faces expulsion within a day of the vote, the episode becomes a test of discipline for everyone watching.

Singh’s expulsion will shape how other party members read the cost of dissent. It also puts the spotlight back on the internal fractures that have surfaced around the council polls and the candidates backed by different camps.

For now, the facts are clear. A JD(U) MLA and his wife are out of the party for six years. The reasons are public, the campaign against the party nominee is documented, and the murder remark has become the story that refuses to go away.