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The rebellion successful Trinamool Congress reached the nationalist superior connected Monday (June 8, 2026) with respective of its MPs holding a gathering astatine Union Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party West Bengal perceiver Bhupendra Yadav’s residence.
Photographs emerging from the gathering showed several Trinamool parliamentarians — Howrah MP Prasun Banerjee, Bankura MP Anup Chakraborty, Cooch Behar MP Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia, Bolpur Lok Sabha MP Asit Kumar Mal, Birbhum MP Satabdi Roy, Jhargram MP Kalipada Soren and Bardhaman Purba MP Sharmila Sarkar — holding a meeting.
Sources contiguous astatine the gathering said that 20 Lok Sabha MPs of Trinamool Congress were present. Barasat Lok Sabha MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar is emerging arsenic the person of the bloc. Dr. Dastidar, who was precocious removed arsenic Trinamool main whip successful the Lok Sabha, has started warming up to the BJP.
Suvendu Adhikari apt contiguous too
The MPs privation to marque a abstracted bloc and enactment the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) authorities astatine the Centre. There are 29 Lok Sabha MPs of the Trinamool Congress and 20 of them person travel retired successful rebellion against enactment chairperson Mamata Banerjee and wide caput Abhishek Banerjee. Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Sukendu Sekhar Roy, who resigned from the enactment and Rajya Sabha was besides contiguous astatine the meeting. West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari was besides apt to beryllium contiguous astatine Mr. Yadav’s residence.
The gathering of rebel Lok Sabha MPs was held not acold from the gathering astatine Constitution Club of India wherever Trinamool chairperson Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee took portion successful the INDIA bloc meeting.
The improvement comes astir a week aft astir 60 of the 80 MLAs of the Trinamool Congress, came retired successful unfastened rebellion and elected a caller Leader of Opposition Ritabrata Banerjee. Mr. Ritabrata welcomed the fast-changing developments successful Delhi.
Meanwhile, erstwhile Kolkata Municipal Corporation Mayor and Ms. Mamata Banerjee’s adjacent adjutant Firhad Hakim met Mr. Ritabrata astatine the West Bengal Assembly connected Monday.
