Suspension of Gaurav Sharma for party rule breaches comes after he made allegations of bullying within the party
New Zealand’s Labour party has suspended MP Gaurav Sharma over what the prime minister,Ardern had called an emergency caucus meeting on Tuesday afternoon, where it was unanimously agreed to suspend Sharma, who has recently made widespread allegations that he and others had experienced bullying within the party.The prime minister said Sharma was invited to the caucus meeting, but did not attend.
“That sense of trust has been broken through repeated breaches of our caucus rules over the last five days. “I’ve seen nothing to substantiate the claims and allegations of mismanagement and bullying that have been made by Gaurav,” Ardern said on Tuesday.