Despite the crushing defeat of Trinamool Congress in the West Bengal Assembly elections, Mamata Banerjee has not accepted defeat. Despite most of the 80 TMC MLAs forming a separate faction under the leadership of Ritabrata Banerjee and Lok Sabha MPs also forming a separate faction, Mamata Banerjee is adamant. Mamta says that to stop me she will have to kill me.

The former Chief Minister of Bengal termed the rebel leaders as traitors. He stressed that the election symbol of Trinamool will remain with him and his loyal people. This indicates that the rebel leaders may have to face a long legal battle. Mamta said that the party’s election symbol will not go anywhere. If you want to stop me you will have to kill me.

On Saturday, TMC Chief suffered another big blow, when Chandrima Bhattacharya also resigned. Later he was seen with the group of opposition leader Ritabrata Banerjee in the assembly. Banerjee’s supporters had captured the party office in Kolkata on Friday.

What did you say on the resignation of Chandrima Bhattacharya?

Mamata Banerjee said, “Chandrima Bhattacharya has resigned today. She had already told me about the real situation that she would resign because her son had already supported the anti-Trinamool faction.” However, the former Chief Minister rejected the rebel group’s proposal to play the role of an advisor and said that she would never associate with the rebels.

She said, “It is (Chandrima Banerjee’s) own decision, but I will not join hands with her.” The Trinamool Congress chief claimed that the rebel leaders had left the party due to pressure. She said that I will not bow down to BJP and my party will also not bow down to any pressure.

What did you say about the rebels occupying the TMC office?

Regarding the rebels, Mamata Banerjee said that I want to say to those who went to the Trinamool Congress office yesterday and locked it that we had taken that office on rent. We got it on lease till October 2027. A person can leave the party, but the organization does not end. This is party property. If I cannot take it under my control then no one can forcibly take over the property of mother, soil and man.

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A question mark was raised on the political future of TMC in Kolkata when there was a split in the party after the defeat in the assembly elections. A section of the party rebelled and formally gave itself the status of the real TMC. This controversy also became public. At the same time, the Election Commission also asked both the parties as to who is the real TMC.

Now the news is that the rebel MLA group has captured the party office. 60 MLAs, including leader of the rebel group and leader of opposition in West Bengal Ritabrata Banerjee, reached the headquarters of Trinamool Congress and held a meeting there for five minutes. Then he came out and locked the gate.

The rebel group has claimed that we are the real TMC. We have rights on the office. After this, Mamata Banerjee supporters reached the party office under the leadership of TMC leader Kunal Ghosh. Where there is news of continuous uproar.

Rebel TMC faction seized control of Trinamool Bhavan on Friday, taking over the party’s long-standing headquarters at Kolkata’s Metropolitan Building and intensifying the ongoing leadership tussle.#TMC pic.twitter.com/hEKZJZFRRB

— Ayantika Chattopadhyay ( অয়ন্তিকা ) (@honubroto) July 3, 2026

Former leadership cut off from public and grassroots workers: Sandipan Saha
A day before this, TMC MLA Sandipan Saha had told news agency IANS that the former leadership was cut off from the public and grassroots workers, which created problems. The democratic process was not being followed within the party. We want the party to run democratically in accordance with its ideology, where every member gets an opportunity to express his views. Decisions should be taken collectively after listening to and discussing everyone’s opinion. This is our wish and objective.

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BJP targeted?

At the same time, BJP has also given a statement on this entire political controversy. BJP national spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said on the ongoing internal differences in TMC, ‘Trinamool Congress has become a history in West Bengal. MPs left Mamata Banerjee. The MLA left. The workers left. The members of his Panchayat Committee of the Panchayat Block also left, the Mayor left. Only his nephew is with him. The majority of Trinamool Congress is against him. Mamta Banerjee is now in minority. Now it is for the Election Commission to decide which party it is and who its leader is.

Delhi: BJP national spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said on the ongoing internal differences in TMC, “Trinamool Congress has become a history in West Bengal. MPs left Mamata Banerjee, MLAs left, workers left, her Panchayat Samiti members from the Panchayat block also left, the Mayor… pic.twitter.com/KMnSlWldjd

— IANS Hindi (@IANSkhabar) July 3, 2026

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The ongoing dispute within Mamata Banerjee’s party Trinamool Congress has reached the Election Commission. People from TMC rebel leader Ritabrata Banerjee’s group met the Election Commission on Thursday (July 2). Now, taking the matter seriously, the Election Commission has sent notices to both the groups. The Commission has sent a notice to Mamata Banerjee and Ritabrata Banerjee and has also sought a reply regarding this. The Election Commission has raised questions about the real TMC.

The Election Commission has written a letter to Mamta and Ritabrata group regarding the claims being made about TMC. Along with this, they have been asked to file their answers by 5:30 pm on Monday (July 6).

Rebel group met the Election Commission

The rebel group led by Ritabrata said that the full bench of the Election Commission listened to them patiently regarding its claim on the party. The rebel group expressed hope that the Commission will soon give an answer on this. Meanwhile, the Mamata Banerjee camp raised questions on the Commission’s decision to give time to the rebel group to meet and alleged that the meeting was a violation of the Commission’s own procedures.

Mamta faction questioned the Election Commission

The unrest in TMC started after the defeat in Bengal elections, which has not stopped till now. Mamta faction has raised the question after the leaders of the rebel group met the Election Commission. Mamta faction has said that the Election Commission has violated its own rules by taking this decision. Now it remains to be seen what decision the Election Commission takes regarding both the groups on July 6.

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Rebel TMC MPs To Support NDA: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has suffered a major setback. 20 MPs of the party have written a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla expressing their desire to join the NDA. According to news agency PTI, Kakoli Dastidar said that 20 MPs including him have decided to support the BJP-led NDA.

Big blow to Mamta

Kakoli Dastidar said that he accepts the election results of West Bengal and believes that his political future is more secure with the NDA. Earlier, amid speculations of a split in the party, 16 TMC MPs led by Sukhendu Roy and Kakoli Dastidar had met Suvendu Adhikari.

If there is a split among the rebel MLAs of Trinamool Congress (TMC), then the anti-defection law will not apply to them. According to the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution, at least 19 TMC MPs in the Lok Sabha will have to leave the party, only then this provision will be considered effective.

Earlier, Sukhendu Roy had resigned from the Rajya Sabha membership from Trinamool Congress, alleging that the Mamata Banerjee-led government was indulging in corruption and atrocities against women.

Rebel MPs wrote a letter to the Lok Sabha Speaker

These MPs have also written a letter to the Speaker for the arrangement of separate sitting in the Lok Sabha. The MPs who met Shubhendu Adhikari include Kakoli Dastidar, Partha Bhowmik, Jagdish Basunia, Dev, Shatabdi Roy, Rachna Banerjee, Kalipada Soren, Arup Chakraborty, Asit Mal, Shatrughan Sinha, Prasun Banerjee, Pratima Mondal and Bapa Halidar.

Rebel TMC MPs met Bhupendra Yadav

Trinamool Congress president Mamata Banerjee, party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and several senior MPs attended the meeting of leaders of the opposition ‘India’ alliance. The 14 Lok Sabha MPs of TMC who participated in the meeting held with Suvendu Adhikari today at 9, Motilal Nehru Marg, include Kakoli Dastidar, Shatabdi Roy, Bapi Halder, Arup Chakraborty, June Malih, Deepak Adhikari, Kalipada Soren, Jagdeep Basunia, Asit Mal, Abu Taher, Khalilur Rahman, Sharmila Sarkar, Prasun Banerjee and Partho Bhowmik.

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After losing power in West Bengal and the rebellion of 58 MLAs in the Assembly, Trinamool Congress (TMC) is now fighting to save its existence. Regarding this, Mamata Banerjee held a meeting with party MPs and MLAs at her residence in Kalighat. After the meeting, party MP Kalyan Banerjee said that Leader of Opposition (LoP) Ritabrata Banerjee appointed by the Speaker is illegal and the party will approach the High Court against it.

TMC will approach High Court against LoP

TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee said, ‘We have decided that the Leader of the Opposition (LOP) appointed by the Speaker is illegal. We will go to the High Court against this on Monday (8 June 2026). We will file a petition in the High Court. We will fight against the way BJP is killing TMC workers and filing false cases against them. We will fight on the streets, we will fight in the court.

Differences deepen over TMC’s successor

For almost 28 years, the internal system of Trinamool has been based on the same principle – the party and leader Mamata Banerjee are synonymous with each other. But now for the first time this equation is under serious challenge. The dissatisfaction that started within the party is now creating fear of spreading beyond the Assembly and reaching the MPs. Besides, deep differences are also emerging regarding leadership, succession and organizational control. The situation has reached such a stage that there is a possibility of future dispute over the control over the party’s symbol ‘Jora Ghas Phool’ (flowers and grass).

Ritabrata Banerjee claimed support of 60 MLAs

The proposal to nominate Ritabrata as the Leader of Opposition was supported by 58 Trinamool Congress MLAs, who signed the proposal and which was accepted by Speaker Rathindra Bose on Wednesday (June 3, 2026). Ritabrata Banerjee had claimed that he has the support of 60 MLAs and the number will increase in the coming days.

Abhishek Banerjee got Mamta’s support

After getting recognition as the Leader of Opposition, Ritabrata Banerjee had made it clear that Abhishek Banerjee would have no role in the party. He had said, ‘Our party has no relation with him. Our community also has no connection whatsoever with them. If there was a relationship, they would not have remained hidden for 26 days, but would have come out. He was beaten the way thieves are beaten. However, Abhishek Banerjee was also present in the meeting held at Mamata Banerjee’s house, when there was talk of going to the High Court against the LOP. It is clear from this that Mamata Banerjee is completely with Abhishek Banerjee.

This means that the core faction of the Trinamool Congress, which still owes its allegiance to former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew and party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, is now reduced to only 20 MLAs. The results of the assembly elections were declared on May 4, in which the Trinamool Congress had to face a crushing defeat. Trinamool Congress’s number of seats in the 294-seat West Bengal Assembly had reduced to 80.

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Rebel in TMC: In the West Bengal assembly elections on May 4, TMC was reduced to only 80 seats. BJP has come to power in the state. After the election results, bad days for Mamata’s party also seem to have started. About 58 MLAs of the party have openly rebelled. It has also staked claim to become an opposition party. Due to this, there is a split in the party.

According to news agency ANI, the people who did not rebel include MLAs Bina Mandal, Ashima Patra, Madan Mitra, Kunal Ghosh, Firhad Hakim, Shobhandeb Chattopadhyay, Biman Banerjee and Ashok Kumar Deb. Apart from these, six MPs are also included. These include Dola Sen, Mala Roy, Kalyan Banerjee, Abhishek Banerjee, Derek O’Brien and Sudip Bandyopadhyay. TMC has 28 MPs in the Lok Sabha and 13 in the Rajya Sabha. All these MLAs did not attend the meeting called by Mamata Banerjee.

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Who is Ritabrata Banerjee who rebelled against the party?

The rebellion in TMC is being led by Ritabrata Banerjee, the MLA who was expelled from the party. After the meeting with the Speaker, he has announced that he has been appointed the leader of the opposition. Due to this, the existence of the party is in danger. In such a situation, such a split has been seen in the party after three decades. TMC has 34 Muslim MLAs. Almost half of them have supported Ritabrata Banerjee. Ritabrata is a former student leader. He was earlier expelled from the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 2017. TMC had sent him to Rajya Sabha in 2024.

Ritabrata says that he will request Mamta to become his chief advisor. The party’s national general secretary and his nephew will not hold any talks with Abhishek. Ritabrata says that TMC Legislative Party is a team of 58 MLAs. He won on the election symbol of TMC. Now we are the real TMC in the assembly. The speaker has accepted our claim. Here, TMC is preparing to go to court against Ritabrata. TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee has said that we have decided that the leader of opposition appointed by the Speaker is illegal. We are going to court against this. We will file a petition in the High Court. We will fight on the streets, we will fight in the courts.

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Ritabrata Banerjee Education: Ritabrata Banerjee, who was expelled from Mamata Banerjee’s party Trinamool Congress, has become the leader of opposition in the West Bengal Assembly. In the West Bengal Assembly, Speaker Rathindra Basu, while accepting the letters of support submitted by the rebel MLAs, handed over the keys of the room allotted for the opposition leaders to Ritabrata Banerjee. After this, Ritabrata Banerjee told the media that two-thirds of the MLAs who won on TMC tickets are united. We have the support of 60 MLAs, two MLAs are currently out of the state. We will face BJP strongly in the House. Apart from this, Ritabrata Banerjee also appealed to Mamata Banerjee to become the advisor of the parliamentary party. In such a situation, Ritabrata Banerjee started being discussed loudly in the capital of West Bengal. Let us now tell you how educated Ritabrata Banerjee is, who has broken Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress.

Who is Ritabrata Banerjee?

Ritabrata Banerjee has been elected MLA from Uluberia Purba assembly in West Bengal on TMC ticket. He has defeated Rudra Prosad Banerjee of BJP on this seat. Before this, he had also been a Rajya Sabha MP twice. However, earlier he had become MP not from TMC but from CPI(M) in 2017. After this he joined TMC and became a Rajya Sabha MP from the party for 15 months.

How educated is Ritabrata Banerjee?

Ritabrata Banerjee was born in 1979 in a Bengali family in Kolkata. He started his schooling from South Point School. Apart from this, he did his graduation from Ashutosh College, Kolkata. It is said that at this time he became a member of SFI and started participating in party programs. After graduation, Ritabrata Banerjee took admission in Kolkata University and obtained MA degree in English Literature.

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Ritabrata Banerjee contested elections for the first time in 2011

It is said that Ritabrata Banerjee became the National General Secretary of SFI during his MA degree. By then he had also established his identity as one of the prominent young faces of CPM. After this, his closeness with many leaders increased and CPM made him its candidate for Kolkata South Lok Sabha seat in 2011. That seat was vacant due to the resignation of Mamata Banerjee, although Ritabrata Banerjee lost that election, but keeping faith in him, the party sent him to the Rajya Sabha in 2014.

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A big upheaval is being seen in the politics of West Bengal. There is a split in Mamata Banerjee’s TMC. The Speaker of the Assembly has approved 58 rebel leaders, including MLA Ritabrata Banerjee, who was expelled from the party. The Speaker recognized Ritabrata Banerjee as the Leader of Opposition. Under the leadership of Ritabrata Banerjee, 60 MLAs met Speaker Rabindra Nath Bose and told him that they are the real faction of TMC and Ritabrata Banerjee should be recognized as the Leader of Opposition. Ritabrata Banerjee claims that he has 60 MLAs with him and that is the real TMC. Akhruzzaman has been made Chief Whip.

Ritabrata Banerjee will be the leader of opposition of Bengal

Ritabrata Banerjee said that the West Bengal Assembly Speaker has accepted the demand of the rebel faction of Trinamool Congress to give the status of legislative party. Ritabrata Banerjee, rebel MLA Sandipan Saha and several disgruntled MLAs met the Assembly Speaker and handed over letters of support signed by 58 MLAs. He also proposed a new leadership team, in which it was said to make Ritabrata the leader of the legislature party, Javed Khan, Sandipan Saha and Shiuli Saha as deputy leaders and Raghunathganj MLA Akhruzzaman as the chief whip.

Big TMC leader stayed away from the meeting

This incident happened after the meeting of rebel MLAs in the assembly. None of the MLAs who participated in the meeting held in the Assembly were present in the dharna of former Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee organized in Central Kolkata on Tuesday (June 2, 2026). On the other hand, leaders like Shobhandev Chattopadhyay, Nayana Bandyopadhyay, Madan Mitra and Kunal Ghosh, considered close to the Trinamool leadership, stayed away from the meeting held in the Assembly on Wednesday (3 June 2026). Under the anti-defection law, support of at least two-thirds of the members of the legislative party is required for any faction to avoid disqualification. Considering 80 Trinamool MLAs, this limit becomes 54.

Ritabrata Banerjee considered Mamata as his leader

Mamata Banerjee had suspended Ritabrata Banerjee and Sandipan Shah from TMC after the election results due to anti-party activities. After this, the news of rebellion in TMC started coming out openly. Ritabrata Banerjee said that we will play the role of opposition and do positive politics. Ritabrata has not opposed former CM Mamata Banerjee. He said that our leader is Mamata Banerjee and we hope that she will continue to show us direction.

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Amidst the ongoing turmoil in the politics of West Bengal, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) team reached the Kalighat residence of Trinamool Congress National General Secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee in Kolkata. Four ED teams arrived in four vehicles and tried to issue summons for questioning on June 15 in the teacher recruitment scam and money laundering case related to coal smuggling.

#WATCH | Kolkata, West Bengal: A team of ED officials reaches the residence of TMC national general secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee to deliver him summons in a money laundering case. pic.twitter.com/raJqV4dcjT

— ANI (@ANI) June 3, 2026

However, the agency could not personally serve notice to Abhishek Banerjee as he was present in a meeting at the residence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at that time. Even before this, ED had summoned him for questioning, but he had expressed his inability to appear citing health reasons.

According to sources, Abhishek Banerjee was called for questioning in the money laundering case related to teacher recruitment scam and coal scam. Even before this, ED had summoned him, but he had expressed his inability to appear citing health reasons.

This action has taken place at a time when there is a big split in Mamata Banerjee’s party TMC.

Big rift in Mamata Banerjee’s party, 58 TMC MLAs rebel along with Ritabrata Banerjee, get Speaker’s approval

58 rebel leaders including MLA Ritabrata Banerjee who was expelled from the party have got the approval of the Assembly Speaker. Ritabrata Banerjee has claimed that he will play the role of leader of opposition in West Bengal. Amidst the political crisis, TMC has taken a major organizational decision and dissolved all the committees of the party except the parliamentary party. It is believed that the party leadership is now preparing to rebuild the organization.

BJP MLA’s big statement on Mamata Banerjee, ‘Can’t become opposition leader, for this…’

TMC Chief Mamata Banerjee, who sat in Kolkata to protest against the attack on party leaders, fiercely targeted BJP. He alleged that BJP rigged the counting of votes on 177 out of 294 seats to win the Bengal Assembly elections. Only six MPs and six MLAs of the party were present with Mamata Banerjee sitting on the dharna. In the recently held elections in the state, 80 MLAs of the party had registered victory, but only 6 MLAs registered their presence at the strike.

These MLAs and MPs came to support Mamata

Former Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has accused BJP of trying to break Trinamool Congress after looting votes in the elections. Along with Lok Sabha MP Kalyan Banerjee, Rajya Sabha MPs Dola Sen, Derek O’Brien, Mala Roy, Sameerul Islam, Nadimul Haq were present in the protest with Mamata Banerjee. Talking about TMC MLAs, Sovandeb Chatterjee, Ashok Deb, Madan Mitra, Nayana Bandopadhyay, Firhad Hakim and Kunal Ghosh reached the protest.

Those who supported him are meeting with traitors: Mamata

Mamta Banerjee said, ‘Police are threatening TMC workers not to participate in the protests, I will continue the protest. It was not the policy of the TMC government to evict hawkers without rehabilitation, we adopted a humanitarian approach. I will not abandon TMC workers in this difficult time. Pointing towards Subhendu Adhikari, Mamata Banerjee said, ‘I regret that the people whom I supported in my life are now associating with traitors.’

Mamta Banerjee’s statement on fake signature controversy

Former CM Mamata Banerjee said, ‘Modi ji has left Bengal in the hands of anti-social elements and unruly leaders, who are pushing the state into darkness. If other parties are allowed to organize political events at the place where we were not given permission to protest, then TMC will approach the court. On the fake signature controversy, he said, ‘If the Assembly Speaker has doubts about the authenticity of the signatures of TMC MLAs, then their forensic examination should be conducted.’

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