TMC Crisis: Trouble mounts for Abhishek Banerjee as TMC General Secretary gets Om Birla's deadline, faces 19-hour ED grilling

TMC Crisis Live: At the same time, he was expected to appear before the Lok Sabha speaker on a tight deadline to put forth his side before a decision is made on the fate of TMC amid rebellion by party's MPs.

TMC Crisis Live: Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee was grilled for 11 hours by Enforcement Directorate (ED) in West Bengal's Kolkata on Monday in connection with the alleged teacher recruitment scam.

TMC Crisis Live: Trinamool Congress MP Saugata Roy on Monday criticised the 20 rebel lawmakers who left the party and merged with the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI). He said that the rebel TMC MPs had joined “an unknown party”, while calling the development “sad.” “They have lost their honour; what can I say? NCPI is not even a recognised party. It is registered in Bengal but gave a candidate in Tripura,” ANI news agency cited Roy as saying. Roy further said the merger had been carried out “to avoid the anti-defection law.”

TMC Crisis Live: Trinamool Congress leader Kunal Ghosh on Monday slammed the rebel lawmakers from the party who merged with the NCPI. “They are joining NCPI (Nationalist Citizens Party of India) is not a big matter, the real matter is that the BJP shut doors on them,” Ghosh said, claiming that the BJP had refused to induct the leaders.

TMC Crisis Live: TMC's rebel faction leader Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla seeking expulsion of TMC leader Kalyan Banerjee. Ghosh Dastidar demanded Banerjee's expulsion on grounds of “repeated verbal abuse, misogynistic comments and misconduct” within the precincts of the Lower House, PTI news agency reported .

TMC Crisis Live: The probe was ordered by the Calcutta high court in 2022. Although the court ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the recruitment of teachers and school staff, the ED started a parallel investigation.

TMC Crisis Live: The Enforcement Directorate questioned TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee for 11 hours on Monday in the teacher recruitment scam probe.