Two MLAs quit Sena,join Cong.

(From The Statesman (India))

Statesman News Service MUMBAI, Jan. 6. - Former Maharashtra chief minister Mr Narayan Rane today piled upon the agonies of his erstwhile political boss Mr Bal Thackeray by snatching two more sitting Shiv Sena MLAs. The MLAs, Mr Kalidas Kolambkar and Mr Shyam Sawant, quit their Assembly seats and shifted to the Congress in the footsteps of their leader Mr Rane, now revenue minister in the Maharashtra government. Mr Rane has claimed that about a dozen Shiv Sena MLAs would resign in batches and follow him. The Maharashtra PCC president, Mrs Prabha Rau, and Mr Rane today welcomed the new entrants with the membership of Congress at Mumbai's …