Ranchi, June 19 -- CPI (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya on Friday wrote to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, strongly protesting what he termed as "wholly unfounded and malicious" allegations against his party's MLAs amid allegations of cross-voting in the Rajya Sabha elections held in Jharkhand recently.

In the letter, Bhattacharya rejected claims that CPI(ML) Liberation legislators were responsible for the defeat of Congress candidate Pranav Jha in the Rajya Sabha elections. He asserted that both party MLAs had voted for the Congress candidate as decided earlier.

"We are shocked to see that the Congress is blaming our MLAs in Jharkhand for the defeat of Congress nominee Pranav Jha in the Rajya...