Four-time MP Kalyan Banerjee has joined forces with 60-odd legislators and 16 Lok Sabha MPs who have hit out at Abhishek Banerjee's alleged high-handed ways.
Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress's chief whip in the Lok Sabha, asked party chief Mamata Banerjee to choose between him and her nephew, Abhishek Banerjee.
The crisis in the party has caught some new leaders unawares, with senior advocate and new Rajya Sabha member Menaka Guruswamy saying it's a sad time for India as a country.
Congress Rajya Sabha MP Abhishek Singhvi said the BJP cannot exploit what is innately non-existent, but added that the combination of agency misuse, vendetta and threat on one side coupled with enormous misuse of money power on the other is a major contributor to the defections in the TMC.
However, with Kalyan Banerjee openly issuing an ultimatum and speaking out against Abhishek Banerjee, Mamata Banerjee may have to address complaints of the latter's alleged high-handedness in party's affairs sooner rather than later.
