Shillong, Sept. 25 -- Eight United Democratic Party (UDP) MLAs, who recently joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Friday submitted a letter to the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly informing the House of their merger with the BJP.

According to a press release, in the absence of the Speaker, Thomas A Sangma, who is currently in Malta on a post-conference study tour, the merger letter was submitted to Andrew Simons, Adviser (Legislation), Meghalaya Legislative Assembly.

The legislators were accompanied by BJP State President Rikman G Momin and BJP MLA Sanbor Shullai at the time of submission.

Speaking to the media after receiving the documents, Simons confirmed that all eight legislators had submitted their papers and that the letter...