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Updated on: June 19, 2026 at 3:03:39 PM IST
Mutiny drama live updates: It’s a big day for the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC, as Abhishek Banerjee meets Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla today over the merger proposal by 20 rebel MPs of the party with the NDA’s NCPI, a move that would divide the TMC if approved.
- 6 minutes agoEggs were thrown at party leader Bhola Singh
- 8 minutes agoAditya Thackeray calls Shiv Sena-UBT rebels shameless
- 28 minutes agoNew jolt for TMC with another Mamata aide resigning from party posts
- 36 minutes agoRamdas Athawale says the allegations about the NDA lack substance, and cites his own party as an example
- 58 minutes agoHow signs of division appeared within the Uddhav Thackeray-led party
- 1 hour and 7 minutes agoTMC’s Abhishek Banerjee is likely to meet the Lok Sabha Speaker at 5 pm
- 1 hour and 9 minutes agoHow did the TMC insurgency crisis unfold?
- 1 hour and 21 minutes agoAbhishek Banerjee heads to Delhi for an important meeting with LS chief on TMC rebel merger
Insurgency Crisis Live: TMC National Secretary Abhishek Banerjee arrives at CID headquarters on Tuesday
Rebellion drama live updates: Speculations of disunity and rebellion by lawmakers have gripped three major opposition parties — Trinamool Congress, Shiv Sena-UBT and Samajwadi Party (SP) — with allegations leveled against the BJP and the NDA-led alliance of organizing an uprising of some kind by MPs and MLAs.
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In the latest development in the mutiny drama, former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew and Diamond Harbor MP Abhishek Banerjee left for Delhi on Friday to meet Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla over his yet-to-be-taken decision on the move of 20 MPs from the rebel TMC to merge with a small Tripura-based party NCPI, which is part of the NDA.
Rebellion drama Key points
1- The rebellion of the representatives of the Transitional Military Council: Formal approval for the merger of the rebel TMC faction, which has 20 MPs and is led by Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, with the National Citizens Party of India (NCPI) is pending with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla as he decided earlier this week to listen to the TMC leadership before taking a final decision. The Lok Sabha Secretariat wrote to Abhishek Banerjee, the TMC leader in the Lok Sabha, on Monday regarding the meeting after he appealed to the Speaker not to recognize any faction of the party. Abhishek Banerjee was scheduled to meet Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday evening to present his case on the split. According to the sources cited in the reports, Banerjee was scheduled to meet Birla at 5 pm in the Parliament Hall.
2- How did the Transitional Military Council crisis begin: In West Bengal, Mamata has faced a series of setbacks since the party’s crushing defeat to the BJP in the recently concluded assembly elections. The MPs’ revolt began earlier this month, a week after MLA Ritabrata Banerjee claimed the position of Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly with the support of 58 legislators. The team of MPs comprising several TMC heavyweights like Saayoni Ghosh, Yusuf Pathan, Rachna Banerjee etc., apart from Kakoli Ghosh, wrote to the Lok Sabha Speaker later proposing a merger with NCPI. If the merger takes place, the NDA’s strength in the Lok Sabha will rise from 294 to 314 seats, 46 seats short of the two-thirds majority mark. In the Rajya Sabha, the ruling alliance can reach 155 seats, only eight seats short of the two-thirds threshold.
3- Shiv Sena-UBT rebellion in Maharashtra: Meanwhile, in Maharashtra, ‘Operation Tiger’ is gaining momentum. Operation Tiger is the name given to the Shiv Sena’s attempts to poach the Sena’s (UBT) elected representatives. It gained momentum on Tuesday evening, two days after only four of the Sena’s nine MPs attended a meeting called by Thackeray at his residence in Mumbai. Shiv Sena leaders led by Eknath Shinde said six MPs from the rival Sena (UBT) are likely to form a separate group and are expected to submit a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. They will then merge with the Sena’s Lok Sabha unit, an HT report said, citing Sena insiders.
4- Who are the six Sena-UBT rebels: The above-mentioned insiders also said that three Sena MPs (UBT) — Sanjay Jadhav, Sanjay Deshmukh and Bhausaheb Wakshor — arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday and did not answer phone calls from party leaders. The six MPs who are likely to form a separatist group are: Sanjay Jadhav (Parbhani), Bhausaheb Wakshuri (Shirdi), Sanjay Deshmukh (Yavatmal), Nagesh Patil Ashtekar (Hingoli), Umraji Nimbakar (Dharashiv), Sanjay Patel (Mumbai NE). However, this cannot be independently verified.
5: Samajwadi Party split rumors: Split speculation is also haunting former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party after TMC and Shiv Sena-UBT internal turmoil. The rumor was sparked by UP Minister Rajbhar’s claim on Wednesday that “the entire SP is sitting to join the BJP”.
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June 19, 2026 at 3:03:09 pm
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TMC crisis live: Egg throwing at party leader Bhola Singh
TMC crisis live: Eggs were thrown at TMC leader Bhola Singh while appearing before a court in Asansol in West Bengal.
June 19, 2026 at 3:01:18 pm
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Mutiny Crisis Live: Aditya Thackeray calls Shiv Sena-UBT rebels shameless
Insurgency crisis live: Aaditya Thackeray on Friday described rebel Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs as shameless, ungrateful and corrupt individuals who betrayed those who helped them win in 2024.
You have shamelessly sold yourselves out, risking your reputation and family names,” Aditya Thackeray said.
(via PTI)
June 19, 2026 at 2:41:45 pm
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TMC Crisis Live: New shake-up for TMC with another Mamata aide resigning from party posts
TMC crisis live: Former West Bengal minister Jyoti Priya Mallick on Friday announced that he has resigned from all his posts in TMC, citing deteriorating health.
Mallick, a long-time associate of TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, said he has already communicated his decision to the party leadership.
“I have resigned from all positions in the TMC due to my very poor health condition,” he said, according to a PTI report.
He is the latest to resign from his party posts or resign from his position as Member of Parliament after Kakoli Ghosh, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Sushmita Dev, Prakash Shek Barak and a few others.
This development comes just days after the TMC made a major organizational reshuffle and brought Malik into the reconstituted working committee.
June 19, 2026 at 2:33:23 pm
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Mutiny drama live updates: Allegations related to NDA lack substance, says Ramdas Athawale, citing his own party as example
Mutiny Drama Live Updates: On allegations of the NDA trying to destroy smaller regional parties, Union Minister Ramdas Athawale said the blame lacks substance, citing the example of his own party – RBI(A).
“I think this claim lacks substance. My party is a small party, but despite that, after joining the NDA, my party has reached 28 states and 8 union territories, and it is even recognized in Nagaland and Manipur… So, there is no basis for this claim,” Athawale told news agency ANI.
June 19 2026 at 2:11:53 p.m
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Shiv Sena Mutiny News-UBT LIVE: How Uddhav Thackeray-led party showed signs of division
Shiv Sena-UBT Mutiny News Live: If speculation is correct, Uddhav Thackeray is currently fighting ‘Operation Tiger’, the alleged attempts by former aide Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena to poach elected representatives from the rival camp, which are believed to have been in place ever since Shinde split the Sena and joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Maharashtra in 2022. Final push, second major section of Thackeray moved with extraordinary speed, and caught Sena leadership (UBT).
The first indication that the process was underway was clear four days ago, when some Sena MPs (UBT) failed to attend a meeting called by Thackeray at his residence in Mumbai. Then, on Tuesday, the rebel MPs cut off communications with party leaders. Matters reached a critical stage when the six dissident MPs defied the party whip and called a meeting of the Sena’s parliamentary party (UBT) in Delhi on Thursday.
Reportedly, the six MPs are: Sanjay Jadhav (Parbhani), Bhausaheb Wakshuri (Shirdi), Sanjay Deshmukh (Yavatmal-Washim), Nagesh Patil Ashtekar (Hingoli), Sanjay Dina Patel (North East Mumbai), and Umraji Nimbalkar (Dharashiv). Read more here
June 19, 2026 at 2:02:56 pm
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Mutiny crisis live: TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee likely to meet Lok Sabha Speaker at 5 pm
Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee will meet Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday evening to make his case on disunity in the party and opposition to recognition of a rebel faction, sources said.
According to the sources mentioned in the PTI report, Banerjee will meet Birla at 5 pm in the Parliament Hall.
The meeting comes after Birla called on the TMC Lok Sabha leader to submit his views on the issue before taking a decision on the request of 20 rebel Trinamool Congress MPs to be recognized as a separate group after their merger with the Nationalist Citizens of India Party.
On June 10, Banerjee wrote to the Speaker, urging him not to grant any recognition, status or facilities to any group claiming to be a separate faction of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), arguing that the Constitution and the anti-defection law do not allow the formation of a separate group within an existing political party.
June 19, 2026 at 2:00:41 pm
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Insurgency News Live: How the TMC insurgency crisis unfolded
Rebellion News Live: Formal approval for the merger of the rebel TMC faction, which has 20 MPs and is led by Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, with the National Citizens Party of India (NCPI) is pending with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla as he decided earlier this week to listen to the TMC leadership before taking a final decision. The Lok Sabha Secretariat wrote to Abhishek Banerjee, the TMC leader in the Lok Sabha, on Monday regarding the meeting after he appealed to the Speaker not to recognize any faction of the party.
Abhishek Banerjee was scheduled to meet Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday evening to present his case on the split. According to the sources cited in the reports, Banerjee was scheduled to meet Birla at 5 pm in the Parliament Hall.
How did the TMC crisis start?
In West Bengal, Mamata has faced a series of setbacks since the party’s crushing defeat to the BJP in the recently concluded assembly elections. The MPs’ revolt began earlier this month, a week after MLA Ritabrata Banerjee claimed the position of Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly with the support of 58 legislators.
The team of MPs, which includes several TMC heavyweights like Saayoni Ghosh, Yusuf Pathan, Rachna Banerjee etc., apart from Kakoli Ghosh, later wrote to the Lok Sabha Speaker proposing a merger with NCPI. If the merger takes place, the NDA’s strength in the Lok Sabha will rise from 294 to 314 seats, 46 seats short of the two-thirds majority mark. In the Rajya Sabha, the ruling alliance can reach 155 seats, only eight seats short of the two-thirds threshold.
June 19, 2026 at 1:48:04 pm
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Insurgency Crisis LIVE: Abhishek Banerjee heads to Delhi for key meeting with LS chief on TMC rebel merger
The insurgency crisis is live: Speculations of disunity and rebellion by lawmakers have gripped three major opposition parties — the Trinamool Congress, Shiv Sena-UBT and the Samajwadi Party (SP) — with allegations leveled against the BJP and the alliance it leads, the NDA, of staging an uprising of some kind by MPs and MLAs.
In the latest development in the mutiny drama, former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew and Diamond Harbor MP Abhishek Banerjee left for Delhi on Friday to meet Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla over his yet-to-be-taken decision on the move of 20 rebel TMC MPs to merge with a small Tripura-based party NCPI, which is part of the NDA.
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