Four rebel Janata Dal-United MLAs were today disqualified as members of the Bihar assembly on a charge of working against the party during the recent by-polls to two Rajya Sabha seats in the state.

Speaker Udai Narain Chaudhary handed over his ruling to the MLAs concerned, one of the disqualified MLAs Gyanendra Singh Gyanoo told reporters after coming out of the Speaker's chamber.

The four MLAs whose membership were annuled are Gyanoo (Barh), Neeraj Singh Babloo (Chhatapur), Ravindra Rai (Mahua) and Rahul Sharma (Ghosi). They were charged with going against the party in the by-polls to two Rajya Sabha seats in the state in June this year and working as proposers and polling agents of rebel candidates Anil Sharma, a real estate baron, and expelled JD-U leader Sabir Ali.