Another Cong MLA resigns

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Updated At : 12:16 PM Jun 06, 2020 IST

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AHMEDABAD, June 5

In a fresh jolt to the Congress ahead of the Rajya Sabha polls in Gujarat, its MLA Brijesh Merja on Friday resigned from the Assembly membership, becoming the third legislator of the opposition party to quit this week.

Brijesh Merja, who represented the Morbi constituency in the Saurashtra region, tendered his resignation to Speaker Rajendra Trivedi. He also sent a letter to the party national president Sonia Gandhi.

Merja is the third Congress MLA to have resigned since Wednesday and the eighth since March. On June 3, Congress MLAs Akshay Patel and Jitu Chaudhary had handed over their resignations to Trivedi. In March, when Rajya Sabha polls were announced, five Congress MLAs had resigned. — OC

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