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TMC turmoil deepens: 20 MPs send letter to Lok Sabha Speaker 'wanting to ally with NDA'
At least 20 TMC MPs have submitted a letter to the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla expressing their desire to ally with the BJP-led NDA, news agency PTI reported citing party lawmaker Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar on Monday. This came after Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Shekhar Ray's resignation from the party and the Upper House, which was accepted by the chairman. "Nearly 20 TMC MPs, including me, have written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla about our decision to support the NDA," she said.
Several MPs head for Delhi, TMC’s Lok Sabha unit stares at split
After a split in its state legislative wing, Trinamool’s parliamentary party is also headed for a split, with several MPs already in New Delhi or expected to reach there by next week. Anticipating the development during a party National Working Committee meeting at her residence on Friday, Mamata Banerjee clipped national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s wings by appointing senior MPs Derek O’Brien and Dola Sen as joint national secretaries. Abhishek’s growing clout and style of...
TMC crisis deepens as third MP resigns from Rajya Sabha & party
Twenty rebel TMC Lok Sabha MPs, over two-third of the party’s 28 MPs, have written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, seeking recognition as a separate group on the lines of the breakaway faction in the West Bengal assembly and said they will support BJP-led NDA at the Centre. The letter, which has been submitted by Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar in her capacity as “chief whip”, has given Bengal assembly Speaker’s recognition of Ritabrata Banerjee-led TMC rebels, who are also over two-third of the party...
Speculation mounts over TMC’s MPs, its heft in INDIA bloc
As TMC faces its biggest crisis in West Bengal, there is growing speculation over the future of its contingent of MPs in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, the impact developments in Bengal will have on the heft of the second largest opposition party within INDIA bloc and its overall ramifications on Opposition’s capacity to take on the govt, especially as the Mamata Banerjee-led party has been a most vociferous critic of BJP-led NDA govt at Centre. How the split within TMC in West Bengal following...
Will TMC's rebellion deliver what elections couldn't — a stronger NDA in Lok Sabha?
Trinamool Congress is staring at what could become the biggest rupture in its 28-year history. Just weeks after suffering a bruising defeat in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee's party now finds itself battling a full-fledged internal uprising that threatens not only its influence in the state but could hand the ruling NDA an easier run in Parliament. The evolving situation inside TMC goes beyond the usual post-election blame game.
Another mutiny brewing? TMC turmoil reaches Parliament - what we know so far
Over a month after facing a drubbing in the West Bengal polls, Trinamool Congress appears to be experiencing a second wave of mutiny, with several party MPs reportedly submitting a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla expressing their desire to support the BJP-led NDA. This comes days after Mamata Banerjee lost control over her party's legislature wing, as 58 TMC MLAs broke ranks with the leadership and backed Ritabrata Banerjee for the post of leader of opposition in the West Bengal...
Another big blow to Mamata: Rajya Sabha MP Prakash Chik Baraik quits amid TMC turmoil
In another setback for Mamata Banerjee-led TMC, Rajya Sabha MP Prakash Chik Baraik resigned from the Upper House on Thursday, becoming the third TMC member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha to quit amid signs of growing unrest within the party. In a letter addressed to Rajya Sabha chairman CP Radhakrishnan, Baraik announced his decision to resign from the Upper House with immediate effect. "I hereby resign from the membership of the Rajya Sabha.
Mamata & Abhishek Banerjee in Delhi, TMC mutiny spreads to Parliament
Trinamool Congress lurched towards its biggest rupture in 28 years Monday after rebel MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar claimed support of 20 MPs and wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla seeking recognition as a separate parliamentary bloc that would back BJP-led NDA. If the numbers hold, rebels would clear the two-thirds threshold needed to shield themselves from anti-defection, handing Mamata Banerjee’s party its gravest challenge since its formation in 1998 and potentially opening a battle over...
TMC may be headed NCP, Sena way, rebels claim support of 19 of 28 MPs
A veteran of many political battles, Mamata Banerjee may be up against her most arduous challenge yet. Sources within the rebel TMC camp said they have managed the support of at least 19 Lok Sabha MPs, two-thirds of the party’s strength of 28, and will claim to be representing its parliamentary wing in the House, a strategy similar to that of the breakaway faction of its MLAs, which has captured its legislative wing in the West Bengal assembly. In a sign of the extent of TMC’s unravelling,...
Trinamool dares rebels to quit party and join BJP
Things are heating up in Delhi with TMC on Tuesday fielding Kalyan Banerjee and Kirti Azad to take on dissident MPs and questioning the claim made by rebel MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar of having the support of 20 MPs and having written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla seeking recognition as a separate parliamentary bloc that would back NDA. Demanding that the letter claiming support of 20 MPs should be placed in public domain, Banerjee challenged all dissident MPs to resign from TMC and join BJP....