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A time aft 20 Lok Sabha MPs of the Trinamool Congress decided to merge with a small known Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI), the enactment successful a societal media station claimed that it has go the largest parliamentary unit successful West Bengal.
“With 20 Lok Sabha seats, NCPI emerges arsenic the largest parliamentary unit from West Bengal shaping the state’s dependable astatine the nationalist level. The numbers talk for themselves...” a Facebook station by the NCPI claimed. According to the post, the fig of MPs with NCPI are 20, portion the BJP has 12, Trinamool Congress has 8 and the Congress has 1 successful the Lok Sabha. The enactment besides posted photographs of rebel Trinamool MPs with the awesome of the party.
20 rebel MPs of the Trinamool Congress person announced their determination to merge with NCPI. The MPs met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla successful Delhi connected Sunday (June 14, 2026) and submitted a missive to that effect.
According to the accusation fixed connected the Facebook leafage of NCPI, the caput bureau of this governmental enactment is located successful Hatgachha colony nether Sankrail constabulary presumption country of Howrah. The Facebook leafage was created successful the aboriginal hours of Monday (June 15, 2026). The enactment is being administered by a mates Uttiyo Kundu and his woman Shewly Kundu. The greenish and saffron enactment bureau successful agrarian Howrah saw the deployment of constabulary and cardinal forces extracurricular the bureau on Monday (June 15, 2026).
According to locals Shewly Kundu, who hails from Hatgachha colony runs a voluntary organisation with her hubby Uttiyo Kundu. Locals said that NCPI has had an bureau successful Hatgachha since 2022 and fielded candidates successful the panchayat elections successful 2023. However, the enactment did not tract immoderate candidates successful the Lok Sabha polls successful 2024 and 2026 Assembly elections.
A fewer functionaries who were associated successful the past said that they were wholly successful the acheronian arsenic acold arsenic developments of merging of Trinamool Congress MP was concerned.
“Uttiyo Kundu and Shewly Kundu are successful Delhi. Their phones person been switched disconnected since past night. We person learnt that they are successful Delhi. Nobody other successful the enactment has immoderate thought astir the development. We started arsenic a tiny party. Our organisation was ne'er successful interaction with BJP. But, it seems immoderate people, arsenic individuals, were successful regular interaction with BJP,” Titas Bhattacharya, who claimed to beryllium the wide caput of the party, said.
The NCPI registered itself connected February 2, 2023 astatine Jago Biswa gathering astatine Sankrail successful West Bengal’s Howrah, arsenic Election Commission of India’s (ECI) information suggests. They were besides allotted the awesome of a instauration pen by the ECI. Three NCPI candidates had contested assembly elections successful Tripura and secured 822 votes.
Trinamool Congress MLA Kunal Ghosh, who is considered a loyalist to Mamata Banerjee, said that the rebels were not invited successful the enactment that engineered their defection and sent them to small known 3rd party.
The determination by the rebel Trinamool MPs to merge with a registered determination governmental enactment and not signifier a abstracted bloc wrong the Trinamool Congress was to debar immoderate ineligible complications nether the anti-defection law. The instrumentality states that wherever two-thirds of the legislators of a governmental enactment determine to merge into different party, neither the members who determine to articulation nor the ones who enactment with the archetypal enactment volition look disqualification.
The Trinamool Congress has been facing a rebellion aft the party’s decision successful the 2026 West Bengal Assembly polls. 60 of the 80 MLAs of the enactment person formed a abstracted bloc and elected expelled Trinamool MLA Ritabrata Banerjee arsenic Leader of Opposition.
