Another issue seems to be adding to the already ongoing turmoil in the TMC, Delhi-based TMC office will be vacated soon. The office is located at 20-B Rajendra Prasad Road in thr national capital. The TMC office operates from the residence of rebel MP Partho Bhowmik. In this regards, Partho Bhowmik has asked Abhishek Banerjee to vacate the TMC office from his residence.
Turmoil in TMC escalates
After a split between its MLAs, the Trinamool Congress appeared headed for an implosion in Parliament, with a group of MPs claiming majority support deciding to ditch Mamata Banerjee and back the BJP-led NDA.
On a day when TMC chief Mamata Banerjee and party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee attended the INDIA bloc meeting in Delhi, Lok Sabha MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, who is at the forefront of the rebel faction, said they had decided to write to Speaker Om Birla declaring support for the NDA.
Kakoli Ghosh says 20 TMC MPs ready to write to the speaker
Ghosh Dastidar claimed that 20 MPs of the party have decided to write to the speaker. “Nearly twenty TMC MPs, including me, have decided to write to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and formally support the NDA,” she told PTI. “We have accepted the people’s verdict and believe that our future political course should be aligned with the NDA,” Ghosh Dastidar said.
Sources said the dissident MPs intend to argue before the speaker that Ghosh Dastidar continues to be the chief whip of the party in the Lok Sabha.
A TMC leader, however, said the party had communicated its decision to remove her as chief whip and appoint Kalyan Banerjee to the Lok Sabha Secretariat through an official letter dated May 20, signed by TMC Parliamentary Party Chairperson Mamata Banerjee. A copy of the letter shared by party sources showed a stamp of receipt from the speaker’s office dated May 29.
