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Rebel Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar connected Tuesday (June 16, 2026) said the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) has agreed to judge the joining of each the dissident Lok Sabha members of her party, whose numbers are apt to spell up to 22 from the contiguous 20.
Ms. Dastidar besides said that the rebel MPs person nary transportation with the dissident TMC MLAs, who person formed a abstracted radical successful the West Bengal Assembly, recognised by Speaker Rathindra Bose.
Asked astir the adjacent determination of the rebel TMC MPs, the lawmaker from Bengal’s Barasat said that archetypal they privation to settee down portion trying to merge into different party.
“Acceptance has already travel to us. They [NCPI] are blessed to instrumentality us. We volition enactment unneurotic with the NDA nether the enactment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah,” Ms. Dastidar told reporters astatine the Parliament House complex.
Asked astir her faction’s strength, she said, “Currently we are 20 (MPs). The numbers whitethorn spell up to 22.” Altogether, 28 MPs got elected to the Lok Sabha connected TMC tickets successful the 2024 wide elections.
On the relations with the rebel TMC MLAs successful Bengal, Ms. Dastidar said the dissident MPs person nary transportation with the State Legislators. “We person nary transportation with them. They are a abstracted group; their issues and docket are different," she said.
Ms. Dastidar, who earlier successful the time attended a gathering of the Parliamentary Standing Committee connected Home Affairs, said the erstwhile TMC Government successful West Bengal did not instrumentality the women's information strategy successful the State successful the past 10 years.
“We were conscionable discussing that adjacent kid information issues were not allowed successful Bengal. Like that, galore different schemes were not implemented nether the erstwhile (TMC) government,” she said.
The elder MP said they are looking to instrumentality each the Central schemes successful Bengal with the assistance of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari.
“Certain schemes person not been implemented successful West Bengal. Child matrimony is highest successful Bengal, according to NCRB data. That is besides a crime. So, these things were happening successful Bengal, which nary of them took up. So, we are trying to enactment for the betterment of the radical of Bengal,” she said.
The situation successful the TMC deepened connected Sunday (June 14) aft the dissident MPs announced their merger with the little-known NCPI, and met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla seeking a abstracted seating statement successful the House.
Speaking to reporters aft the gathering with Birla, Ms. Dastidar had said that 20 TMC MPs had signed a practice submitted to the speaker.
"Two-thirds of TMC MPs person fixed a missive to the talker for a abstracted seating statement successful the House. We volition merge with the Nationalist Citizens Party and enactment the NDA,” she had said.
The NCPI registered itself arsenic a governmental enactment successful January 2023, with a gathering successful Sankarail successful West Bengal's Howrah territory arsenic its code successful Election Commission records.
The little-known outfit has present unexpectedly entered the nationalist governmental sermon aft the rebel TMC MPs announced their merger with the party.
