Bhopal, Mar 18 (IANS): Rebels Congress MLAs from Madhya Pradesh, who are camping in Bengaluru, issued a video message on Wednesday, refusing to meet former Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh and other Congress leaders who have gone to meet them and reiterated that they were there out of their own choice.

"Have come to Bengaluru on our own. For the past one year, no work has been done. We have come here on our own. Request Digvijaya Singh and other leaders that they go back because we don't want to meet them," the MLAs said in the video message.

Sources say that the rebel MLAs issued the video message to Digvijaya Singh after he was detained by the Bengaluru Police.

Singh reached Bengaluru on Wednesday morning wanting to meet the rebel MLAs.

Twenty-two Congress MLAs have resigned from the Assembly, the resignation of six has been accepted by the Speaker.

Earlier, after being taken into preventive custody, Digvijaya Singh announced that he will start hunger strike as he was denied a meeting with the MLAs.