Guwahati, March 24: After two days of rebellion, the five Congress legislators who had threatened to resign in protest against the nomination of Ranee Narah as the candidate for Lakhimpur constituency, finally gave in to the party’s decision today.

All the five MLAs — from constituencies falling under the flood and erosion-prone Lakhimpur constituency —expressed solidarity with Narah and the party’s decision in the presence of Assam PCC president Bhubaneswar Kalita and AICC secretary in-charge Mabel Rebello at Rajiv Bhawan this afternoon.

Rebello later told reporters that the party was going to win comfortably. “There is no dissidence. We are together,” she said.

The MLAs admitted to being unhappy over Narah’s candidature but added that the issue had been amicably resolved after meetings with the party leadership yesterday.

“We had differences. We aired our grievances before the chief minister, the party president and the AICC leader. After threadbare discu-ssions, everything was resolved amicably. We are one family now and will work in the interest of the party and the candidate,” Majuli MLA Rajiv Lochan Pegu, who was the first to have threatened to quit, said.

The other MLAs — Sumitra Patir, Raju Sahu, Ghana Buragohain and Bolin Chetia — echoed Pegu at the show of solidarity staged for the media at the party headquarters.

Narah, on her part, said the presence of the MLAs vindicated her stand that there was no dissent over her candidature.

“We are all disciplined soldiers of the party and we will work in the interest of the party. I was nominated because of my ability and after taking everything into consideration. I thank Sonia Gandhi, chief minister Tarun Gogoi and PCC president Bhubaneswar Kalita for reposing their faith in my ability,” Narah said.

Kalita took questions on behalf of the MLAs after allowing them to state their position before newspersons.

“They (the MLAs) may have said a few things on the spur of the moment. There could have been misunderstandings but everything was resolved last night. History repeats itself but not always,” Kalita said when asked if Narah would meet the same fate as in 2004 when she lost because of similar opposition to her candidature.

The PCC president also said the party’s state-specific manifesto would be released tomorrow.

Party insiders said though a truce has been brokered, it was a tenuous process because some more meetings have been planned between Narah and the MLAs.