Meghalaya Speaker Approves Merger Of 12 Rebel Congress MLAs With Trinamool
NDTV
Congress has now been left with just five MLAs in the state.
Meghalaya speaker Metbah Lyngdoh today rejected Congress's disqualification petition against 12 rebel party MLAs who had recently switched over to the Trinamool Congress and gave recognition to the merger. Trinamool has now become the main opposition party in Meghalaya.
Mr Lyngdoh had issued notices to the 12 MLAs after the Congress filed a petition seeking their disqualification from the assembly under rules of the tenth schedule of the Constitution.
Asserting that their merger with Trinamool Congress was constitutional, 10 turncoat MLAs from Congress had filed individual replies to Mr Lyngdoh, urging him not to disqualify them.
Congress has now been left with just five MLAs in the state.
