Bengal Congress president Adhir Chowdhury on Wednesday proposed the 44 legislators sign affidavit declaring they would not leave the party. In a meeting with the new Congress MLAs at the party office here, Chowdhury made the proposal, to which all agreed, senior leader Manas Bhuniya, who attended the meeting, said. “In the meeting it was decided that all MLAs will have to sign a memorandum (written on stamp paper) stating that they will not leave the party. It was decided all Congress legislators will have to sign an affidavit on a stamp paper stating they must resign from their posts of MLA if they leave the partyA file photo of prominent West Bengal Pradesh Congress members during a meeting with newly elected party MLAs at party headquarters in Kolkata. Photo: PTIKolkata: In a novel method to prevent its newly-elected MLAs from defecting to the Trinamool Congress, as is widely speculated.

Source: Mint May 25, 2016 04:48 UTC