Bhubaneswar, March 18 -- The Odisha Congress on Tuesday moved the assembly Speaker seeking disqualification of three of its MLAs, accusing them of denying the party line and cross-voting in the recent Rajya Sabha election. The three had earlier been suspended by the party. In a letter to Speaker Surama Padhy, Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Rama Chandra Kadam said the three legislators - Sofia Firdous (Cuttack-Barabati), Dasarathi Gomango (Mohana) and Ramesh Jena (Sanakhemundi) - acted "in clear violation of the party whip", adding that their conduct amounted to defection under the provisions of the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution. The move for disqualification follows dramatic cross-voting in the March 16 Rajya Sabha election wh...