Kolkata, May 31 -- The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Sunday postponed its legislative party meeting at chairperson Mamata Banerjee's Kolkata residence as only 19 of the 80 MLAs turned up to discuss the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) probe into an alleged forgery of some of their signatures in a letter nominating Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay as the assembly's leader of the opposition (LoP), party leaders said.

At least 30 of the 80 TMC MLAs need to sign a letter nominating the LoP.

Kunal Ghosh, the party's state general secretary and MLA from Kolkata's Beliaghata claimed that most MLAs could not make it as they were protesting on the streets against the heckling of the party's national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday af...