In what can be described as a page straight from the Shiv Sena split in 2022 in Maharashtra, West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari is all set to meet the rebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders on June 14 (Sunday) ahead of their scheduled meeting with the Lok Sabha Speaker on June 15 (Monday).
Rebel TMC MP Jagdish Basunia confirmed this development on Friday, also claiming that their faction is the “real TMC.”
The West Bengal CM had earlier held a meeting with the TMC rebel faction in the national capital last week, following which some more resignations came in.
“We have formed the ‘real TMC’ group. The maximum number of MPs are with us,” Basunia told ANI, mentioning that they would be urging the Speaker to recognise them as the real TMC.
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“We will demand action, not the same seating arrangement with other TMC”, he added.
When he was asked if they received any call from TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, Basunia said, “I did not get any call. I do not know if any MP got a call. There has been no contact.”
Trinamool Congress has been in a free fall after it was routed in the West Bengal assembly polls. While a large section of the party’s legislators have rebelled and have been “recognised as the opposition” in the Bengal assembly with Ritabrata Banerjee as their leader, the rift has also hit the party’s parliamentary group under the leadership of MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar.