Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress (TMC) is facing its biggest internal crisis yet, with resignations and dissent growing a month after the party was voted out of power in West Bengal.
Rajya Sabha MP Prakash Chik Baraik became the latest TMC leader to resign from his post in the Upper House of Parliament on Thursday.
Rebel TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar alleged that nearly 20 party MPs had written to Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla to convey their support for the BJP-led NDA.
The list of TMC MPs reportedly part of the rebel camp includes:
- Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar (Barasat)
- Yusuf Pathan (Baharampur)
- Saayoni Ghosh (Jadavpur)
- Dev (Deepak Adhikari) (Ghatal)
- Arup Chakraborty (Bankura)
- Bapi Haldar (Mathurapur)
- Jagadish Basunia (Cooch Behar)
- Prasun Banerjee (Howrah)
- Sharmila Sarkar (Bardhaman Purba)
- Partha Bhowmick (Barrackpore)
- Asit Mal (Bolpur)
- Mitali Bag (Arambagh)
- Satabdi Roy (Birbhum)
- Mala Roy (Kolkata Dakshin)
- Abu Taher Khan (Murshidabad)
- Kalipada Soren (Jhargram)
- June Malia (Medinipur)
- Khalilur Rahaman (Jangipur)
- Rachna Banerjee (Hooghly)
The list of TMC Rajya Sabha MPs who have resigned includes Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Sushmita Dev, and Prakash Chik Baraik.
The growing divisions within the TMC have sparked speculation about a possible merger with the Congress, but people familiar with the matter have denied any proposal for a merger.
