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Amidst speculation that the Trinamool Congress whitethorn merge with the Congress, West Bengal Congress president Subhankar Sarkar said connected Wednesday (June 10, 2026) that anyone who wants to spot Leader of Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi go the country’s Prime Minister could articulation the party.
“Politics is an creation of possibility. Anyone who wants to spot Rahul Gandhi arsenic Prime Minister tin articulation the party,” Mr. Sarkar told media erstwhile asked whether the Congress is consenting to accommodate Trinamool main Mamata Banerjee.
Asked whether Ms. Banerjee’s nephew and Trinamool nationalist wide caput Abhishek Banerjee is besides welcome, Mr. Sarkar said that the aforesaid conditions would use for him arsenic well.
Return to Congress roots?
Over the past 2 days, Ms. Banerjee and Mr. Abhishek Banerjee person held respective meetings with Mr. Gandhi and his mother, erstwhile Congress main Sonia Gandhi, triggering speculation that Ms. Banerjee whitethorn effort to instrumentality to her roots.
Ms. Banerjee had formed the Trinamool Congress successful 1998 aft she was expelled from the Congress. The TMC came to powerfulness successful 2011, defeating the 34-year-old Left Front government, and remained successful powerfulness for 15 years till 2026. Before 2021, the TMC had captured each municipality antecedently held by the Congress and engineered the defection of a fig of Congress MLAs to the Trinamool. Given this history, a conception of Congress leaders and workers are against Ms. Banerjee rejoining the Congress.
‘Rebels are existent TMC’
Barely a period aft suffering a crisp decision successful the West Bengal Assembly election, the Trinamool Congress is facing a rebellion by astir of its State legislators and a divided among its Parliamentarians. About 20 Trinamool MPs successful the Lok Sabha person announced a abstracted bloc which volition widen enactment to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government.
The rebels successful the Trinamool Congress legislature enactment successful West Bengal person appointed Ritabrata Banerjee arsenic the Leader of Opposition successful the State Assembly, and helium insisted that the TMC rebels would not merge with the Congress. “We are the existent Trinamool Congress and not merging with Congress,” helium told journalists extracurricular the State Assembly.
‘No merger planned’
The Uluberia Purba MLA said that the fig of rebel MLAs has present accrued to 64 and expressed assurance that much volition articulation them. Only 80 Trinamool Congress candidates had won seats successful the 2026 Assembly election.
“The MPs successful Parliament — much than two-thirds of them are not merging with the Congress either. So, who is merging with whom? As acold arsenic we are acrophobic and based connected what I know, the MPs aren’t going, we aren’t going, the municipal representatives aren’t going, the Zilla Parishad members aren’t going,” Mr. Ritabrata Banerjee said.
On Wednesday, another Trinamool MP Sushmita Dev resigned from the Rajya Sabha, bringing the fig of party’s Rajya Sabha MPs down to 11. On Monday, Sukhendu Sekhar Ray had besides resigned from the enactment and from his Rajya Sabha seat.
