Amid a widening rift within the party ranks, Trinamool Congress’s national general secretary, Abhishek Banerjee, wrote a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, requesting him to represent the Trinamool Congress as a single political entity. He also wrote that the party would be represented by its Leader and the Chief Whip in both Houses of the Indian Parliament.
“Treat the AITC as a single political party represented in the House solely through its duly authorised Leader and Whip, and decline to accord any recognition, status, or facility to any purported separate group or faction of the AITC,” Banerjee wrote to Speaker Om Birla.
The development came an hour after two TMC MPs visited Om Birla’s residence and submitted a letter requesting the Speaker not to recognise any faction or bloc in the party. They called the creation of any such group within the party ‘illegal.’
“It is very clear. The Supreme Court constitutional bench has said that it has been mentioned in Article 4 of the 10th Schedule that there cannot be a split. What happened in Maharashtra is wrong. So, we have come here with an application over the same. We have submitted the application to the Speaker. We are fully confident that the Speaker will act as per the rules, as he has done so far,” said Kirti Azad while speaking to the media after leaving the residence of Om Birla.
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