Rebel Trinamool Congress MPs announce merger with Nationalist Citizen Party

The rebel Trinamool Congress MPs volition beryllium merging with Nationalist Citizen Party, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar said connected Sunday (June 14, 2026), pursuing a gathering with the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.

“20 MPs met the Speaker and asked to marque abstracted seating arrangements for us. We are much than 2 thirds of the MPs and volition merge with Nationalist Citizen Party. We volition enactment with NDA for the involvement of the country,” Dr. Dastidar said aft gathering the Speaker.

Meanwhile, up of its rebel MPs’ planned gathering with Speaker Om Birla, the Trinamool Congress parliamentary enactment person successful the Lok Sabha, Abhishek Banerjee, had written to the Speaker, urging him not to accord immoderate recognition, presumption oregon installation to immoderate radical claiming to beryllium a abstracted faction of the party.

The divided wrong the party’s Lok Sabha contingent became evident earlier this week, with dissident MPs publically breaking ranks with the enactment of Mamata Banerjee.

On Monday (June 15, 2026), Ms. Dastidar had claimed the enactment of astir 20 TMC MPs, saying the radical intended to backmost the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) astatine the Centre.

(With inputs from PTI)