Congress suspends 3 Jharkhand MLAs caught in Bengal cash haul
India Today
The Congress party on Sunday suspended three MLAs after they were caught with cash in West Bengal.
The Congress party on Sunday suspended three MLAs after the West Bengal Police found a huge amount of cash in their vehicle on Saturday.
The general secretary and party in-charge of Jharkhand Congress, Avinash Pande said,"The three MLAs, who were held with a mountain of cash yesterday, have been suspended from the party with immediate effect."
The three MLAs, Irfan Ansari, Rajesh Kachchap and Naman Bixal Kongari were travelling in an SUV on National Highway-16 at Ranihati when the police intercepted their vehicle.
Ansari is the MLA of Jamtara, while Kachchap is the legislator of Khijri in Ranchi district, and Kongari is the MLA of Kolebira in Simdega district.
Earlier, the Congress had accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of trying to topple its coalition government, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-Congress alliance, by poaching its MLAs.
