Three NCP MLAs disqualified from Nagaland Assembly

More than two months after declaring merger with the Nagaland Unit of BJP, three NCP MLAs were disqualified from the state Assembly today.
Speaker Chotisuh Sazo ordered the disqualification of the three MLAs from the Assembly, state Assembly sources said.
The three MLAs include then NCP state president Imtilemba Sangtam, Parliamentary Secretary for Tourism Dr T M Lotha and MLA Mmhonlumo Kikon.
The three of them had declared merger with he BJP on June 16 and had claimed to have fulfilled all criteria under the Anti-Defection Law.
However, the NCP Nagaland unit had written to the Speaker urging him not to accept the merger, but to disqualify the three defectors on grounds that no resolution had been passed by the NCP to merge with the BJP in Nagaland.