Rebel faction of 20 Trinamool Congress MPs decide to merge with Tripura-based Nationalist Citizens Party, meet Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla

Rebel TMC MPs meet Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla at his residence, in New Delhi on Sunday.
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In a modern jolt to Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, a insurgent faction of 20 MPs on Sunday determined to merge with Tripura-based Nationalist Citizens Social gathering, a little-known Bengali-oriented political occasion.

The insurgent Trinamool Congress MPs met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and conveyed their resolution to him. The group requested separate seating preparations in Parliament.

After assembly Birla in Delhi, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, who’s main the insurgent TMC MPs faction, informed mediapersons, “We (20 MPs) are merging with the Nationalist Citizens Social gathering. We requested separate seating preparations in Parliament.”

Ghosh Dastidar, a four-term parliamentarian, added, “We command two-thirds majority. We’ll work for the nation and work with the NDA beneath the management of the Prime Minister.”

Notably, the Trinamool Congress, which has confronted a serious inner rebel after its huge defeat to the BJP within the latest Meeting polls in West Bengal, has 28 Lok Sabha MPs.

Earlier within the day, Trinamool Congress MPs Kirti Azad and Sagarika Ghose, from the Mamata Banerjee camp, met Om Birla at his residence in Delhi and submitted a letter of occasion’s basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee on the developments round insurgent occasion MPs making an attempt to make a separate bloc, urging the Lok Sabha Speaker not to accord any recognition and standing to any separate group or faction of TMC.

Considerably, on final Wednesday, Ritabrata Banerjee, the chief of the legislature occasion faction of Trinamool Congress, claimed the help of 64 insurgent MLAs, up from 58 earlier.

“The rely is at the moment 64 MLAs. These legislators will come and submit a letter to the Speaker. We’re the actual Trinamool Congress,” Banerjee informed newspersons exterior the West Bengal Meeting.

main jolt

In a serious jolt to Mamata Banerjee, Ritabrata Banerjee and Sandipan Saha, two expelled TMC MLAs, earlier within the month claimed the help of 58 MLAs, over two-thirds of the occasion’s newly elected legislators, in Bengal. Speaker Rathindra Bose recognised Ritabrata because the Chief of the Opposition (LoP) within the State Meeting.

“The quantity of MLAs with us could rise additional. Naturally, we’re the actual Trinamool Congress,” Ritabrata added.

Using on a large anti-incumbency wave towards the erstwhile Trinamool Congress authorities, the BJP recorded a historic landslide victory within the Meeting elections held in April. The saffron occasion’s win ended 15 years of TMC rule and marked a watershed second for the occasion because it dismantled Mamata Banerjee’s bastion by way of an all-guns-blazing election marketing campaign. The occasion received 208 seats, lowering the Trinamool to simply 80 within the 294-member West Bengal Meeting.

Printed on June 14, 2026