Amid the revolt in the Trinamool Congress, Aam Aadmi Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of engineering divisions in rival parties by using investigative agencies like the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Speaking to reporters after 58 TMC MLAs rebelled against the party leadership and demanded a TMC legislature, Sanjay Singh said, “The way the BJP is working involves breaking up parties, intimidation with ED, CBI, investigation agencies, which has become a game in the country. They broke the Shiv Sena, they broke the NCP, they broke the Congress in Arunachal and Uttarakhand, they broke the Congress in Goa, Karnataka, they They broke the Madhya Pradesh party too.
He added, “They want to rule the country by breaking all parties. The solution lies with the people. The people must give them an appropriate response immediately. This is the only solution.”
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has exploded into utter structural chaos. Just days after the crushing defeat in the April 2026 Assembly elections that ended his 15-year rule, a stunning internal revolt has split the legislative party, completely removing Diamond Harbor MP Abhishek Banerjee and stripping the top leadership of its legislative authority.
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In a high-voltage development on Wednesday afternoon, 58 of the 80 newly elected members of the TMC marched into the chamber of Assembly Speaker Rathendranath Bose to formally demand control of the TMC legislature party.
Led by recently expelled MLAs Ritabrata Banerjee and Sandiban Saha, the dissident faction claimed to have crossed the crucial two-thirds threshold required to bypass anti-defection measures, and succeeded in naming Ritabrata Banerjee as the official Leader of the Opposition (LoP).
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As the coup unfolded, the panicked TMC high command responded by issuing a scorched earth administrative order on X, dissolving every party committee and front organization across West Bengal with immediate effect under the guise of “introspection and performance review”.
Speaking to reporters, Ritabrata Banerjee launched a direct attack on the party’s national general secretary. “Abhishek Banerjee will have absolutely no role in it. Neither our legislative party nor the party organization has any connection with it at all. The people of Bengal have no connection with it at all.”
However, the rebels insist that Mamata remains their leader. The 58-member group formally asked her to play a ceremonial role. “We want Mamata Banerjee to be our chief advisor, to give us advice that will help us strengthen our position as the opposition,” Ritabrata added.
Rebel MLAs Rayat Hussain Sarkar and Ghulam Rabbani carefully supported this narrative to avoid public backlash, asserting that they had won using “Didi’s image” and still seeing her as their ultimate leader, but agreeing that Ritabrata was the democratic choice to lead them on the Assembly floor.
The letter submitted to Parliament Speaker Rathendranath Bose formally requests a complete overhaul of the opposition benches, replacing the entire loyalist leadership.
