Kolkata: The 20 Lok Sabha MPs who quit the TMC and aligned themselves with the NCPI have sought another four weeks to respond to notices issued by Speaker Om Birla on petitions seeking their disqualification under the anti-defection law, as the deadline granted to them expired on Tuesday.
Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) parliamentary chairperson Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar said the MPs were yet to collate all documents required for their response and had therefore sought another extension from the Lok Sabha Secretariat.