Analysts in Sittwe, capital of Rakhine State and an ANP stronghold, said the expulsions would result in a more hard-line approach towards the NLD but risked splitting the party, which was formed as a merger of two rival groups two years ago.
The expulsion decision followed an urgent closed-door meeting of its central committee held in Pann Nilar village outside Sittwe on March 12.
The crisis was prompted by a press conference held in Yangon on March 6 in which members of the former Arakan League for Democracy (ALD), which merged with the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party (RNDP) to form the ANP, announced that they would not support the party policy of opposing the NLD. (Courtesy of Myanmar Times)
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