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After the party’s MLAs and MPs divided up, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) enactment is facing a caller crisis, wherever 3 accounts of the enactment person been frozen by a slope successful Kolkata. Funds to the tune of ₹440 crore are parked successful these accounts, sources said.
Letters and emails accessed by The Hindu amusement that the slope has informed the officer-in-charge of the cyber transgression constabulary presumption of Bidhannagar metropolis constabulary connected Friday (June 19, 2026) that a “debit freeze” had been marked successful the 3 relationship numbers.
Trinamool person and erstwhile enactment treasurer Aroop Biswas had written to the bank, flagging the divided successful the party’s Parliamentary and legislative wings, and demanded a halt to each fiscal transactions successful its account.
“In bid to safeguard the funds of the organisation. I petition your bully bureau to support the presumption quo and refrain from permitting immoderate debit transactions oregon changes successful operational mandates successful respect of the pursuing account.,” Mr. Biswas, a erstwhile Minister, and said successful his missive to the bank.
It is not wide whether Mr. Biswas, who is facing probe with respect to fiscal irregularities and administrative lapses during footballer Lionel Messi’s 2025 Kolkata tour, consulted TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee oregon elder person Abhishek Banerjee earlier penning specified a letter.
MLA Kunal Ghosh, a loyalist of Ms. Banerjee, said that Mr. Biswas nary longer held the station of treasurer and had nary authorization to talk for the enactment connected fiscal matters. During an enforcement committee gathering held connected June 5, it was unanimously decided that Subhasish Chakraborty would beryllium the treasurer, and Mr. Chakraborty has been discharging the functions of a treasurer since then, Mr. Ghosh said.
The relationship frost besides follows complaints by 10 rebel MLAs aligned with the Leader of the Opposition successful the State Assembly Ritabrata Banerjee to the cyber transgression constabulary presumption nether the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate, seeking registration of a First Information Report, and a elaborate probe into the accounts.
“It has travel to my cognition done reliable circumstances and surrounding developments that definite funds, arising retired of amerciable activities, including misuse of influence, dishonest fiscal dealings and suspected unlawful postulation of money, whitethorn person been routed and subsequently deposited into slope accounts,” the ailment by the MLAs stated.
The Trinamool Congress won 80 seats successful the 2026 West Bengal Assembly election. Mr. Ritabrata Banerjee has since claimed the enactment of 65 of the 80 MLAs, and lone a fistful of MLAs person remained loyal to the Trinamool Congress.
The enactment is facing a divided with 20 of its 28 Lok Sabha MPs deciding to merge with the small known National Citizens Party of India (NCPI), and enactment the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance.
On Saturday (June 20, 2026), Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, who has led the rebel campy of MPs, told media persons that the radical would instrumentality ineligible steps against Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra for claiming that the rebel MPs had taken pecuniary gains for switching sides.
Ms. Moitra, who met Ms. Mamata Banerjee connected Saturday (June 20, 2026), said anyone was invited to lodge complaints against her. She claimed that the MPs who had won connected the Trinamool summons and utilized enactment funds for their run should explicate wherefore they were aligning with the BJP now.
