TMC Crisis: Crisis deepens for Mamata Banerjee as Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar issues BIG statement, says 'Sar Katega, Jhukega Nai'

TMC Crisis Live: Even if traitors get 19 MPs (2/3) which they have not - only option is to merge with BJP along with 2/3 of political party. Bhupinder Yadav & Om Birla cannot create separate political party or faction. 5 judge bench in Subhash Desai vs. Principal Secretary, Governor of Maharashtra (2023), settled this.

TMC Crisis Live: Former TMC Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray says, "As a common citizen, I feel that the new government is moving forward vigorously with its declared agenda..." On TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee calling him a traitor, he says, "I don't know whom he called a traitor and why. I don't want to comment on this."

TMC Crisis Live: Kalyan Banerjee accused Sharmila Sarkar and Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar of politicizing the matter, much like Abhaya's mother. However, he added that Abhaya's death was an extremely tragic and unfortunate incident.

TMC Crisis Live: Kalyan Banerjee claimed that none of these leaders had ever shown any willingness to implement Central government schemes. Referring to the RG Kar Hospital case, Banerjee said that he himself had taken part in protest marches over the issue.

TMC Crisis Live: TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee launched a sharp attack on the rebel MPs, calling them "hypocrites." He said that, except for Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, all of them joined the party after 2011 and none had ever participated in any political struggle.

TMC Crisis Live: Former Bidhannagar Mayor and TMC leader Sabyasachi Dutta, who was arrested in connection with an extortion and criminal intimidation case, was taken to a hospital for a medical examination on Tuesday.

TMC Crisis Live: While talking about the 20 rebel TMC MPs extending support to the NDA govt, JD(U) National Spokesperson Rajeev Ranjan blamed Abhishek Banerjee’s dictatorial attitude for the consequences. "This was bound to happen. Abhishek Banerjee’s dictatorial attitude has strangulated internal democracy. There was no composure within the party," Ranjan said.

TMC Crisis Live: The turbulence that has hit the TMC since its electoral debacle has veritably softened party supremo Mamata Banerjee, who attended the INDIA bloc meeting here with a reconciliatory approach to chart a pan-India strategy against the BJP.

TMC Crisis Live: Rebel leader Ritabrata Banerjee, who now heads the breakaway faction in the West Bengal Assembly, described Ray's resignation as a sign of rising dissent in the party and claimed more parliamentarians could publicly distance themselves from the TMC in the coming days.

TMC Crisis Live: Mahua Moitra served a salvo specifically to MP Yusuf Pathan. "And @iamyusufpathan you are rushing to Delhi because @AmitShah has called you? Have some courage. You played for India. Our district voted you in with a huge margin. Have some shame & some spine," she wrote.

TMC Crisis Live: TMC MP Mahua Moitra launched a scathing attack on the dissident camp. In a post on X, Moitra said MPs were elected in 2024 on a TMC mandate and not in support of the NDA. "MPs won in 2024 on TMC ticket. Mandate was NOT for NDA. All the greedy self-serving traitors with yellow-stained pants can please join BJP now -- resign your seats & contest on BJP ticket. Let's see what big heroes you are," she wrote.

TMC Crisis Live: A photograph purportedly from the meeting circulating online showed Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Shekhar Ray, along with MPs Abu Taher, Asit Mal, Arup Chakraborty, Kalipada Soren, Jagadish Basunia, Prasun Banerjee, Sharmila Sarkar, and Satabdi Roy.

TMC Crisis Live: The TMC currently has 28 Lok Sabha MPs, with one vacancy following the death of Basirhat MP Haji Nurul Islam. The support of 20 MPs would comfortably cross the two-thirds threshold needed to thwart the invocation of the anti-defection law.

TMC Crisis Live: According to sources, the rebel MPs have chosen not to immediately resign from the TMC or join the BJP, but to function as a separate bloc supporting the NDA -- a strategy designed as a shield against the anti-defection law.

TMC Crisis Live: "Nearly twenty TMC MPs, including me, have decided to write to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and formally support the NDA,"Kakoli Ghosh Dastodar told PTI. "We have accepted the people's verdict and believe that our future political course should be aligned with the NDA," she added.

TMC Crisis Live: TMC chief Mamata Banerjee and party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Monday attended the INDIA bloc meeting in Delhi.

TMC Crisis Live: Lok Sabha MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, who is at the forefront of the rebel faction, on Monday said they had decided to write to Speaker Om Birla declaring support for the NDA.

TMC Crisis Live: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) appeared headed for an implosion in Parliament, with a group of MPs claiming majority support deciding to ditch Mamata Banerjee and back the BJP-led NDA.