Three Congress MLAs from Jharkhand were stopped in West Bengal’s Howrah district by the police on Saturday evening after a huge amount of cash was found in their vehicle.
Acting on a tip-off, the SUV in which MLAs Irfan Ansari, Rajesh Kachchap and Naman Bixal Kongari were travelling was intercepted on National Highway-16 at Ranihati in Panchla police station area.
Ansari is the MLA of Jamtara, while Kachchap is the legislator of Khijri in Ranchi district and Kongari is the MLA of Kolebira in Simdega district.
The Congress accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of trying to topple its coalition government, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-Congress alliance, by poaching its MLAs.