Kolkata, June 15 (IANS) After 20 rebel Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha members on Sunday announced their joining the virtually non-existent Tripura-based political force, the National Citizens Party of India (NCPI), the party resurfaced on social media in a new look on Monday. On the wall of the new‑look Facebook page of NCPI that surfaced on Monday morning, each of the 20 rebel Trinamool Lok Sabha members, who had revolted under the leadership of four‑time Lok Sabha members Kakoli Ghosh Dastid…
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Kolkata, June 14 (IANS) Amid growing rebellion among Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha members, the party’s National General Secretary and Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, has written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, urging him not to recognise any separate block within the Trinamool Congress Parliamentary Party in the Lower House, arguing that the Trinamool Congress is a single and unified political entity.The rebel Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha members, who are now believed to be in a majority, ar…
New Delhi, June 14 (IANS) After Trinamool Congress rebel MLAs urged Mamata Banerjee to join them as advisor, senior Trinamool Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay, who recently extended his support to breakaway MPs, reiterated the same message for his leader on Sunday. This is the first time that the septuagenarian Parliamentarian spoke to the media publicly after news broke on Saturday of his joining rebel ranks. However, he is yet to officially sign the draft prepared by the re…
Kolkata, June 14 (IANS) Rebel Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar on Sunday claimed that not just 20 but there are total 22 party MPs, which are part of the party’s ‘rebel’ faction led by her. The Trinamool MP made this claim while she was travelling to Delhi. There are reports that the ‘rebel’ Trinamool faction is holding a meeting there.Kakoli Ghosh claimed that Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will meet them on Monday when the rebel Trinamool MPs will submit a letter to him.On Saturday, Kol…
Kolkata, June 13 (IANS) The rebellion in the Trinamool Congress Parliamentary Party in the Lok Sabha is becoming more evident as veteran party leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay has joined the rebel faction MPs. Bandyopadhyay, the Kolkata Uttar MP of Trinamool Congress, was seen in a car with rebel party MP Satabdi Roy in Delhi on Saturday.He left with Satabdi Roy in the same car from Delhi airport to meet the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Union Minister Bhupender Yadav at the latter’s residen…
New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) Trinamool Congress (TMC), in the throes of crisis over rebellion in its Parliamentary unit, may be on the brink of a split as the rebel lawmakers are set to meet Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday and seek recognition and sanctity as the ‘real TMC’. The rebel faction, claiming to have support and signatures of 19 TMC MPs, has reportedly sought a meeting with the LS Speaker, where they will submit their consent to form a separate TMC parliamentary group.TMC MP Jaga…
Kolkata, June 11 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Saumitra Khan said on Thursday that the rebel Trinamool Congress leaders are free to form a separate platform and will not be allowed to join the BJP.His reaction comes amid a growing rift within the Trinamool Congress, leading to the resignation of several party leaders and MPs.Previously, Union Minister of State Sukanta Majumdar and West Bengal BJP President Samik Bhattacharya had made similar statements that no leader from the Mamata Ban…
New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha MP Kalyan Banerjee’s ultimatum to party Chairperson Mamata Banerjee to choose between her nephew and party’s General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee and old associates like him both underscores and amplifies the moot reason for the ongoing unrest within the 28-year-old party. In an exclusive conversation with IANS, Kalyan Banerjee lashed out at Abhishek Banerjee’s “arrogance” and “misbehaviour”, saying he felt humiliated after being sidelined in…
New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) Sushmita Dev, who announced her resignation from the Trinamool Congress as well as from the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, cited “political and personal” reasons for her decision, while noting that since she hails from Assam, she would now like to serve the people of the state.Talking to IANS after submitting her resignation, Sushmita Dev said: “I have some political and personal reasons. I do not want to say anything more than that.”On the dissent within the Trinamool MPs, …
Kolkata, June 9 (IANS): Trinamool Congress General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday ignored the third consecutive notice from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of West Bengal Police for questioning in connection with an ongoing probe in the case of mismatches in signatures of some party legislators in an important resolution pertaining to important positions in the state Assembly, which are reserved for the Opposition bench. Abhishek Banerjee, also the nephew of former Chief Mini…