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In a major political development in Tripura, six Congress legislators switched allegiances on Tuesday and joined the Trinamool Congress.
Tripura Assembly Speaker, Ramendra Chandra Debnath told reporters that he had received a letter from Congress legislator Sudip Roy Barman, who was accompanied by three legislators.
Sudip Roy Barman who had been the leader of the opposition recently resigned from the post after protesting against the Congress-Left electoral alliance in West Bengal.
Besides Roy Barman, the five other Congress MLAs who signed the letter are Ashish Saha, Biswabandhu Sen, Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl, Pranjit Singha Roy and Dilip Sarkar.
Currently the Congress has only three legislators in the 60-member house.
On Monday, another Congress legislator, Jitendra Sarkar, resigned from the Tripura assembly and said he would rejoin the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M).
Meanwhile, Tripura’s Congress president, Birajit Sinha urged the Speaker to enact the anti-defection law against the six Congress legislators.
In consultation with the party’s central leadership, Sinha suspended another party legislator Biswabandhu Sen for six years for “anti-party activities”.
(With inputs from IANS.)
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