A nondescript house in Howrah's Sankrail town has become the unlikely headquarters of a parliamentary revolt against Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress (TMC) party.
The house, which belongs to Uttiya Kundu and his wife Shewly, a mathematics teacher and an advocate respectively, is the registered office of the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI).
NCPI, a little-known party formed in January 2023, has suddenly become the fifth largest party in the Lok Sabha after 20 TMC MPs announced their merger with the party.
Leader of the TMC's rebel faction Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar confirmed that Jyotiprakash Chatterji is the president of NCPI, while NCPI's youth general secretary Titas Bhattacharya welcomed the merger announcement.
The turmoil in TMC unfolded soon after its loss in the West Bengal assembly polls last month, with at least 59 of its 80 MLAs forming a breakaway faction.
