LUCKNOW, May 15 -- BJP leader Babban Singh Raghuvanshi was expelled from the party on Thursday after a purported video showing him engaging in obscene acts with a dancer went viral on social media.

BJP state general secretary Govind Narain Shukla on Thursday issued a letter to Raghuvanshi, who is the chairman of Kisan Cooperative Mill in Rasra, Ballia district, informing him about the state president's decision to expel him from the party on charges of misconduct and indiscipline.

The video, said to be from a wedding event, shows the BJP leader indulging in an inappropriate behaviour and obscene acts with a female dancer.

Raghuvanshi, 70, is a former BJP candidate from the Bansdih assembly seat in the 1993 elections.

However, he denie...