•BJP: The eight expelled members were among 25 Opposition MPs who either voted for the Government or abstained or remained absent. “If there was no cross-voting, the Government would have lost the trust vote,” Advani told reporters. The Leader of Opposition said action was also being taken to seek the disqualification of the eight MPs from the Lok Sabha. The MPs expelled are Brijbhushan Sharan Singh (Balrampur), Manjunath (Dharwad), Chandrabhan Singh (Damoh), H T Sangliana (Bangalore North), Manorama Madhwaraj (Udupi), Haribhav Madhav (Jalgaon), Babubhai Katara (Dohad) and Somabhai Patel (Surendranagar). The names were announced by BJP president Rajnath Singh at a news conference.

Angry BJP workers threw crude bombs and stones at the bungalow of Chandrabhan Singh, the expelled MP from Damoh in Jabalpur on Wednesday. Singh’s bungalow in Damoh, occupied only by his staff, was also attacked late on Tuesday when it had become clear that he had abstained from voting. Armed guards have since been deployed at both the residences.

In Ahmedabad, BJP’s Gujarat president Purshottam Rupala alleged that the two suspended MPs, Patel and Katara, were bribed by the UPA.

In Bangalore, party workers vented anger over Sangliana’s decision to vote in favour of the UPA Government by attacking his office. Protestors damaged a board at the office and burnt an effigy of the MP.

•SAD: In Chandigarh, even as SAD president Sukhbir Badal said the party had expelled Sukhdev Singh Libra and had requested the Lok Sabha Speaker to disqualify him from the House, the rebel MP said he had abstained from voting against the UPA Government because he felt that the deal was in the interest of the nation.

Dismissing allegations that he had been bribed to abstain from the voting as “baseless”, Libra said the BJP as well as the SAD had publicly stated in the past that they were in favour of the nuclear deal.

•BJD: Stung by rebel MP Harihar Swain’s decision to support the UPA during the trust motion, the BJD announced the 73-year-old member’s expulsion on Tuesday night. Hundreds of party supporters in Ganjam demonstrated in front of his house and burnt his effigy with a call for social boycott. BJD activists and leaders in Ganjam district are preparing to stage a protest against Swain as soon as he arrives in Bhubaneshwar.

•TDP: The TDP expelled Nagarkurnool MP M Jagannath and issued a show-cause notice to Chitoor MP Adikesavulu Naidu. Jagannath subsequently released a statement to the TDP, claiming that he voted according to his conscience. Party sources said he was likely to quit before the party takes a decision on whether to expel him. Party president N Chandrababu Naidu has so far claimed that it was confirmed that only Jagannath voted for the UPA in defiance of the whip, and that the party was taking time to confirm exactly what happened with Naidu in Parliament, since his vote was declared invalid.

•JD(S): The JD(S) expelled its Lok Sabha member M Shivanna for defying the party directive. The decision to expel the Chamarajanagar MP was taken at a meeting party chief H D Deve Gowda had with Lok Sabha member M P Veerendrakumar and party secretary general Danish Ali.

“We have decided to expel the MP for violating the decision of the party to vote against the confidence motion moved by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,” Gowda said.

•MDMK: An erstwhile partner of the UPA in Tamil Nadu and at the Centre, the MDMK is contemplating action against two of its members for defying the party whip directing them to vote against the Union Government. Party general secretary Vaiko had already warned action against the rebel members if they went against the whip. However, L Ganesan and Gingee N Ramachandran went against this and voted with the DMK in favour of the UPA.

•Shiv Sena: MP Tukaram Renge-Patil, whose whereabouts before and during the trust vote remained unknown, was on Wednesday expelled from the party.