May 11: Six rebel Congress (I) corporators in the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC), who were expelled from the party for their anti-party activities, are totally indifferent to the party's action.

Reacting to their expulsion from the party, they unanimously said that they had anticipated this action by the party, and added ``the party is losing all the time and they were never at a loss''.

These corporators were part of the 13-member group that had defected from the party to form a separate group with independents and other opposition parties. The party MLC Vasant Dawkhare, who had reportedly engineered the split, has been issued a show cause notice, which he has to reply within 15 days, party sources said. This year onwards government, in a bid to check crossing floor had made provisions to attach the certificates of elected corporators and to retain it with the divisional commissioners for any action.

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