TMC's merger with NCPI, involving 20 MPs, may be delayed as Lok Sabha Speaker seeks to meet TMC leaders amid dissent and defections. | India News

Rebel TMC MPs to join Tripura-based Nationalist Citizens Party of India | India News

This came soon after party General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee told the Lok Sabha speaker not to recognise the rebel faction as a separate bloc.

Twenty rebel Trinamool Congress MPs met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in New Delhi and sought separate seating arrangements in the House. Rebel MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar said the…