Congress president Rahul Gandhi has convened a meeting of the party's West Bengal unit on July 6 in New Delhi to discuss various organisational issues, a senior leader said today. Though the meeting has been called to deliberate on organisational matters, the issue of "poaching of Congress MLAs and elected representatives of the party by the Trinamool Congress (TMC)" is also likely to come up for discussion, a senior state Congress leader said on the condition of anonymity.

"We received a call from Delhi (the party high-command) and were asked to be present at our president's office at 11 am sharp on July 6," Abdul Mannan, the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, told PTI. "We will present our point of view on the issue of constant poaching of our elected representatives by the TMC, thus weakening our party and paving the way for the BJP in Bengal," a senior Congress leader said.
The Congress had won 44 seats in the 2016 state Assembly polls in alliance with the Left Front.