imphal six congress mlas in manipur have submitted their resignation to the speaker party legislator o henry singh said on tuesdaythey are among the eight congress mlas who defied a party whip on monday and skipped the oneday session of the assembly in which the bjpled n biren singh government won a facile vote of confidencebesides henry singh who is an mla from the wangkhei assembly segment the legislators who have resigned are oinam lukhoi of wangoi md abdul nasir of lilong paonam brojen of wangjing tentha ngamthang haokip of saitu and ginsuanhau of singhat he saidthey cited the lack of trust in the leadership of o ibobi singh and said that due to him the congress failed to form the government even when it was the single largest party in the statethey were summoned by speaker yumnam khemchand singh after the assembly session on monday night and their resignation letters were verified henry singh saidthe resignations were yet to be accepted by the speaker he addedhenry singh said they will resign from the membership of the party later in the daythough the governments victory in the vote of confidence was a foregone conclusion the absence of the eight congress mlas from the crucial session showed some astute political manoeuvering by the chief ministerthe 60member house has an effective strength of 53 including the speaker who had the casting vote he could have used in the event of a tiefour members had been disqualified earlier and three of the bjp resigned sometime backthe ruling coalition had 29 mlas including the speaker while the congress had 24 of whom eight abstainedwith this victory biren singh buffetted by a string of desertions in the party appeared to have consolidated his grip on the ruling coalition which has 18 bjp mlas four each of npp and npf one each of the tmc lok janshakti party and an independent