State Congress President Adhir Chowdhury accused Bhuniya of working on the behalf of TMC and said the party would not tolerate such indiscipline.
"He is working on behalf of Trinamool Congress as an agent of TMC in lieu of 'supari'. We will not tolerate indiscipline. Nobody should take Congress for granted," Chowdhury said.
"Today in the meeting of Congress MLAs, a unanimous decision was taken to send a proposal to AICC requesting them to take disciplinary action and suspend Manas Bhuniya as he has indulged in anti-party activities, disrespecting the state leadership and the decisions taken by the party," Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Abdul Mannan told PTI.
Mannan said it was also decided that Bhuniya would be boycotted by Congress MLAs.
Reacting to the decision, Bhuniya said both Mannan and Chowdhury were deliberately insulting him.
"They are deliberately insulting me. I haven't received any letter of suspension. Let me get it first, then I will decide my future course of action," Bhuniya said.
He had boycotted today's Congress Legislature Party meeting.
The development came a day after Bhuniya's younger brother and West Midnapore district Congress president Bikas along with several Congress, joined the TMC.
Thirty-nine party MLAs had jointly appealed Bhuniya to resign from that post.
Congress wanted to give the PAC chairman's post to the CPI(M), with which it had jointly contested the West Bengal Assembly elections earlier this year.
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