The PDP expelled its Rajya Sabha member Nazir Ahmad Laway from the party on Friday for "anti-party activities", after he had attended the swearing-in ceremony of the new Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Girish Chandra Murmu.

"The member of Rajya Sabha, Nazir Ahmed Laway, has been expelled from the basic membership of the party," a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) spokesman said in a statement here.

 PDP expels RajyaSabha MP Nazir Ahmad Laway for attending swearing-in of J&K L-G GirishChandra MurmuFile image of Nazir Ahmad Laway. Twitter@Nazir_Laway

The decision, he said, has been taken by the party leadership in view of Laway's participation in the swearing-in ceremony of thenewly appointed Lieutenant Governor in Srinagar undermining the party's stand.

He said that the participation of the MP was incontravention to the party's stand regarding the current political situationand the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status under Article 370 ofthe Constitution.

Murmu was on Thursday sworn in as lieutenant governor (L-G)of Jammu and Kashmir.

The Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh,which have been carved out of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, in accordancewith the government's August 5 decision to revoke the special status of thestate under Article 370 and bifurcate it into two UTs.

This is not for the first time that Laway has gone againstthe directives and instructions of the party, the spokesman said.

Prior to this, Laway had abstained from voting against thetriple talaq bill in Rajya Sabha this year.

Laway had torn a copy of the Constitution, along with PDP MPMir Mohammed Fayaz, on 5 August before Union Home Minister Amit Shah laid theJammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill in Rajya Sabha. Laway did not respond torepeated telephone calls.