Fifteen dissident BC Conservative Party members will be disciplined for calling for leader John Cummins to resign.

The 鈥渁ffected party members鈥� will be notified by mail this week, party leader Al Siebring said in a issued Monday.

He did not name the 15, nor did he say if all 15 are being stripped of their party memberships.

The Siebring press release said punishment will include 鈥渢erminations of membership and letters of censure.鈥�

The list was expected to include Allison Patton, president of the Surrey-White Rock BC Conservative constituency association and a of Cummins.

鈥淲hen I get my letter, I will frame it,鈥� Patton told Peace Arch News  Monday.

She called the announcement 鈥渂izarre鈥� and said legal action is a possibility.

The party board of directors also announced plans to create a 鈥渦nity committee,鈥� and passed a motion to express 鈥渇ull confidence and support鈥� for Cummins as leader.

According to Siebring, the move to purge the dissidents followed a failed attempt last week to end the infighting before a Cummins deadline for the dissidents to leave the party or get in line.

In an emailed to party members Wednesday, Siebring said he and an unnamed member of the party board of directors met the day of the deadline in Delta with two representatives of the anti- Cummins faction, also unnamed.

Siebring said he agreed to meet on condition that 鈥渢hose attending the meeting鈥� would drop their call for Cummins to step down and would 鈥渙nly discuss positive initiatives to lead the party to success鈥︹��

Enough progress was made at the meeting, according to Siebring, that a joint statement was drafted for release to reporters that called the session 鈥渃onstructive.鈥�

It was never issued.

The same day, Patton and the president of the Burnaby North constituency association, Ariane Eckardt, issued a press release saying the meeting produced a deal for Cummins to resign, but Cummins had reneged.

鈥�(Cummins would step down) by Friday with $4,000 per month for six months and鈥� Rick Peterson would become interim leader,鈥� the statement claimed.

Cummins participated in the meeting by phone, according to Patton and Eckardt.

Cummins called the Patton-Eckardt statement an 鈥渁bsolute fabrication.鈥�

At Peace Arch News  press time Monday, Patton issued a statement saying her constituency association held an emergency meeting on the weekend, passing resolutions formally requesting Cummins鈥� resignation and demanding a special general meeting.