India, March 24 -- The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal is mulling action against a few dozen party legislators for allegedly skipping the last day of the assembly session last week defying a whip issued by the party's chief whip.

TMC chief whip Nirmal Ghosh had issued a whip for all MLAs to attend the last two days of the budget session on March 19 and 20. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee attended and addressed the session on Wednesday (March 19). But party leaders said that several MLAs skipped the last day of the assembly sessions despite the whip.

Some senior party leaders put the number of such MLAs, who skipped the session on the last day, to at least 50.

TMC leaders also said that Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, the state p...