TMC Crisis: Abhishek Banerjee appears before CID for questioning in 'forged signature' case

TMC Crisis LIVE: TMC MPs Sharmila Sarkar and June Maliah arrive at Kolkata airport as they leave for Delhi.

TMC Crisis LIVE: Rebel TMC MP Saayoni Ghosh arrives at Delhi airport. "I will not say anything now. I will only speak when the time is right," she said.

TMC Crisis LIVE: Baidyanath Ghosh Dastidar, son of TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, says, 'I want to tell you the truth: I never asked anyone for a ticket. There is an I-PAC official named Chandrabhushan Rao—you can check LinkedIn for him. He was the one who first called me via WhatsApp. He tried to convince me to run for MLA, promising to make me a minister or an MP…Representatives from I-PAC, including Sompal—a leader from the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad—would call me every month…The thing is, I had an observership scheduled for September and October. I was working in Boston for those five months—October, November, December, January, and February…”

TMC Crisis LIVE: TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee appears before CID for questioning in 'forged signature' case.

TMC Crisis LIVE: According to a News18 report, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar hinted that two more TMC leaders are set to join the Rebel camp, saying the number of leaders in touch with the party could rise from 20 to 22

TMC Crisis LIVE: TMC MPs Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Deepak Adhikari (Dev) arrivee at Kolkata airport as they leave for Delhi.

TMC Crisis LIVE: West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari Delhi visit canceled, meeting with rebel TMC MPs postponed

TMC Crisis LIVE: Baidyanath Ghosh Dastidar, son of rebel TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, issued a legal notice to Mamata Banerjee and other TMC leaders, denying claims of seeking a Barasat Assembly ticket.

TMC Crisis LIVE: At a meeting held at Mamata Banerjee’s residence on Saturday, the Trinamool Congress announced key organisational changes. Kunal Ghosh was appointed President of the party’s North Kolkata unit, which had been managed by a core committee headed by Sudip Bandyopadhyay.

TMC Crisis LIVE: Several MPs have joined the dissident camp, including Yusuf Pathan, Abu Taher Khan, Partha Bhowmik, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Bapi Haldar, Saayoni Ghosh, Rachana Banerjee, Asit Mal, K Rahman, Sharmila Sarkar, Mitali Bag, Shatrughan Sinha, Kalipada Soren, June Malia, Mala Roy, Dev Adhikari, Satabdi Roy, Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia and Arup Chakrabarty.

TMC Crisis LIVE: The party has also been hit by a series of resignations. Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev resigned from both Parliament and the party, following the earlier resignation of senior leader Sukhendu Sekhar Ray.

TMC Crisis Live: Union Minister Shantanu Thakur on Sunday launched a scathing attack on Rebel TMC leaders and said that the doors of BJP are closed for TMC members.

TMC Crisis Live: Senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and former minister in the erstwhile Mamata Banerjee government, Manas Bhunia, has resigned from the party. Without specifying reasons for his exit, Bhunia told the media that he had sent a letter to TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, announcing his decision to quit all organisational posts, including as a member of the party.

TMC Crisis LIVE: The West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has summoned Trinamool Congress (TMC) legislator Kunal Ghosh for questioning on June 14 as part of its ongoing investigation into allegations of forged signatures.

TMC Crisis LIVE: Of the 28 Lok Sabha MPs, 19 have come together to push for a separate parliamentary group in the Lower House. In the Bengal assembly, 64 of the 80 legislators, led by Ritabrata Banerjee, rebelled against party chief Mamata Banerjee’s decision to appoint Sovandeb Chattopadhyay as the Leader of the Opposition.

TMC Crisis LIVE: “Mamata gave these people posts and honour. In return they do this. Sudip Bandyopadhyay has a history of changing political camps. We repeatedly warned Mamata di. He just misleads Mamata di to run his show. I was once suspended for speaking out against him. Now it is proved that I was right,” TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh told the media.

TMC Crisis LIVE: According to the reports, Bandyopadhyay, accompanied by dissident TMC MP Satabdi Roy, met Yadav. This comes amid buzz that the rebel group may meet Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday to seek recognition as a separate parliamentary group.

TMC Crisis Live: Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and six-time MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay met Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Union minister Bhupender Yadav in Delhi on Saturday, fuelling speculation that another Lok Sabha member may join the party’s rebel group.