New Delhi/Kolkata: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Monday met Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla and submitted two letters, urging him to expedite a decision on the party’s petitions to disqualify 20 rebel MPs and to revoke recent changes made to the seating arrangements of its parliamentarians.Banerjee’s move comes just a day before CM…
Last Updated:July 18, 2026, 22:01 IST Abhishek Banerjee’s remarks come at a time when several TMC MLAs and MPs have left Mamata and joined NCP and the TMC Ritabrata faction, blaming him for the crisis within the party. Several prominent Trinamool Congress MPs have emerged as part of the growing rebel camp, deepening the crisis…
Rebel TMC MPs Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Satabdi Roy, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Mala Roy during their meeting with Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla last month Kolkata: The Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) is set to debut as the second biggest partner of the NDA in the upcoming monsoon session of Parliament.Twenty rebel Trinamool Congress MP…
Twenty rebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs are likely to initiate legal action against party colleague Mahua Moitra over her allegation that parliamentarians who switched sides were ‘bribed’ to the tune of Rs 40 crore, sources told India Today TV. According to sources, the MPs held a meeting and decided to file a defamation suit against…
Kolkata: Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra’s sustained jibes at rebel MPs have prompted at least two of them — Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Satabdi Roy — to indicate they will pursue legal action against her for libel.The trigger was Moitra’s renewed mockery on Sunday of the National Citizens Party of India’s claims of being “pro-poor,” after…
Kolkata: Even as most of its founding members remain in the dark about who their newly appointed president is, Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) on Wednesday welcomed Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs who wanted to join them. In an X post, the party said, “We welcome all Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs who want to join…
2 min readNew DelhiJun 17, 2026 07:25 PM IST With Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla yet to make a decision on the status of the Trinamool Congress in the House, the Speaker’s office on Wednesday wrote to party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, inviting him to present his case on the issue at 5 pm on…
Kolkata: Trinamool’s rebel MPs, from Sudip Bandopadhyay to Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Rachna Banerjee, spoke in multiple voices on Tuesday.While Sudip said they will not abandon their plans to stake claim to being the “real Trinamool”, even if that had to come after a court decision, Kakoli maintained that the focus, at present, was on…
NEW DELHI: Rebel TMC MPs merged with Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) to dodge disqualification provisions under the anti-defection law. Now they have taken over the party.Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, a longtime confidant of TMC chairperson Mamata Banerjee and who became the face of party’s Lok Sabha MPs’ rebellion against her leadership, was elected president…
Kolkata: NCPI MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar wrote to Speaker Om Birla on Monday seeking Mamata Banerjee loyalist Kalyan Banerjee’s expulsion from Lok Sabha for alleged “verbal abuse, misogynistic comments and misconduct.” Kalyan called the allegations “false, fabricated and made as an afterthought.“ Source link
