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Amid a petition by the Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar-led faction of 20 rebel Trinamool Congress MPs to merge with the Nationalist Citizen Party of India (NCPI), Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla connected Monday (June 16, 2026) invited the radical of TMC MPs led by Mamata Banerjee to “present their case”.
The Speaker’s bureau was responding to TMC National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s missive of June 10. The missive urged the Speaker not to recognise oregon assistance abstracted presumption to immoderate rebel TMC faction successful the Lok Sabha. Mr. Banerjee said the TMC is simply a “single, indivisible governmental party”and that the legislative enactment cannot beryllium separated from the genitor organisation and that nary breakaway radical based connected signatures tin assertion recognition.
According to the Mamata Banerjee faction, the invitation from the Speaker’s bureau addressed to Mr. Banerjee came astatine 2 p.m., asking him to conscionable the Speaker astatine 4 p.m.
On Monday (June 16, 2026), Mr. Banerjee was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate for 11 hours successful Kolkata.
Party Lok Sabha MP Kirti Azad informed the Speaker’s bureau that since Mr. Banerjee did not person entree to his email, helium would beryllium informed erstwhile the interrogation concluded.
Meanwhile, Mr. Azad went and met Mr. Birla.
