Dissidents press for CLP meet,Gogoi says will quit if Sonia asks

I am ready to quit if Congress president Sonia Gandhi desires, Gogoi said after an executive committee meeting of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee APCC held here.

A section of Congress legislators have been keeping Gogoi under pressure for more than a year now.

A section of Congress legislators had written to him demanding a special meeting of the CLP with a single-point agenda to sort out certain serious grievances they had.

The 32 legislators have preferred to call themselves disgruntled and not dissidents.

The dissident MLAs had last month even threatened to resign if the CM had permitted the police to arrest Rupjyoti Kurmi,legislator from Mariani in Jorhat district over an FIR that he had assaulted a police constable.