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Dissident TMC MPs volition conscionable Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla connected Monday to question designation arsenic the "real TMC", rebel MP Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia said connected Friday (June 12, 2026), and claimed that 19 members are presently backing the faction.
Mr. Basunia, the MP from Cooch Behar and among the lawmakers seeking to enactment the NDA successful the Lok Sabha, told PTI Videos that the radical has already submitted a practice to the Speaker.
"We person submitted the letter... On Monday, we volition spell to the Speaker and involvement our assertion to signifier the existent TMC parliamentary group. We volition inquire the Speaker to springiness designation to our claim," Mr. Basunia said.
He said that the process to cod signatures began connected June 8 and that 19 MPs had signed the practice truthful far.
Sources said the timing of the gathering has not been finalised yet.
Mr. Basunia deed backmost astatine TMC MP Kirti Azad implicit his remarks that dissident MPs were being fixed wealth to displacement loyalty, and said, "Kirti Azad is simply a liar. This is not close to say. We are 19 MPs and helium is besides an MP... it is not close to marque specified allegations".
Asked astir elder Trinamool Congress person Kalyan Banerjee’s remarks connected Abhishek Banerjee, Mr. Basunia said, “He is saying the close thing. We enactment Kalyan ji’s statement".
The TMC plunged into a situation pursuing the party's decision successful the West Bengal assembly elections and rebellion by a ample conception of its legislators.
The turmoil aboriginal dispersed to Parliament, with dissident MPs claiming the enactment of much than 20 Lok Sabha members.
On Thursday, Rajya Sabha MP Prakash Chik Baraik became the 3rd TMC parliamentarian to resign from some the enactment and the Upper House this week, aft Sukhendu Sekhar Ray and Sushmita Dev.
The situation besides exposed interior responsibility lines successful the party.
Senior TMC person Kalyan Banerjee connected Thursday launched a crisp onslaught connected enactment nationalist wide caput Abhishek Banerjee and declared that helium would stay successful the enactment lone if Abhishek is removed from each enactment positions.
Even arsenic the rebellion gathered momentum, respective elder leaders publically reaffirmed their enactment for Mamata Banerjee.
Lok Sabha MPs, including Sougata Roy, Shatrughan Sinha, Pratima Mondal, and Rajya Sabha MP Babul Supriyo, person denied being portion of a dissident grouping, asserting that they would stay with the party.
