As the Trinamool Congress (TMC) political storm has reached its zenith in Delhi, its all-India party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla asking him to treat the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) as a “single political party” that is represented in the Lower House through its Leader and Whip.
The letter also pleads the Speaker to “decline to accord any recognition, status, or facility to any purported separate group or faction of the AITC.”
TMC Parliamentary Party Leader and National General Secretary of the party, Abhishek Banerjee, writes to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla over "news reports that certain TMC Lok Sabha MPs have submitted, or propose to submit, a communication to your good office seeking to be recognised… pic.twitter.com/aYm727mGRF
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It has also asked the Speaker to allow it the “opportunity of being heard before any decision is taken” if the rebel group wants to be recongnized as a seperate group of faction of the AITC.
The TMC’s second-in-command also mentioned in his letter that the law “does not recognise the splintering of a political party into competing groups as a permissible event; it treats such conduct, instead, through the lens of disqualification.”
The letter also stated that as per law, “no breakaway set of members may appoint their own Leader or Whip, or seek recognition as a distinct entity, in derogation of the authority of the political party.”
The Diamond Harbour MP’s letter comes at a time when the rebel TMC MP’s whose number has now reportedly gone up to 22, held a meeting with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and Bengal-in-charge Bhupender Singh on Sunday.
The group of MPs are slated to meet the Speaker on Monday in person along with the signatures of all the rebel leaders and stake claim to be recognised as a seperate political entity. The bloc, under the leadership of TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, has already sworn their allegiance to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).