TMC lurches from crisis to crisis: Mamata's party battles for survival as rebel MPs move to stake claim

NEW DELHI: From the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC shifting its Delhi operations from the residence of Partha Bowmick – a Lok Sabha MP whose sanction has surfaced among the 19 rebel MPs --to its earlier code connected South Avenue -- the location of different MP Mohammed Nadimul Haque – astir a week backmost to the early-morning sound by constabulary astatine nationalist wide caput Abhishek Banerjee's Kalighat residence successful Kolkata connected Saturday, the combat for endurance that the enactment is facing is each excessively evident.It was communal cognition during TMC’s tenure successful govt that some Mamata and Abhishek's residences successful Kolkata were virtually impregnable. It was nary astonishment past that the searches astatine Abhishek Banerjee’s location drew crisp reactions from Mamata camp. “3 AM Saturday June 13. Police get astatine Abhishek Banerjee’s Kalighat residence successful Kolkata. 5 AM: Disaster Management squad called successful to interruption unfastened locks. 6:30 AM: Search begins, from 2nd level to terrace, lasting 90 minutes.

Outcome? Seizure study says: nil. No evidence. No wrongdoing. Nothing,” Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghose said successful a station connected X.“Just governmental vendetta, intimidation and intelligence torture. Operation Lotus is targeting each person who refuses to surrender to the BJP’s diktat,” she alleged.TMC, which had been moving its Delhi bureau from Partha Bhowmick’s bungalow astatine 20, Dr Rajendra Prasad Road since past year, moved to 61 South Avenue astir a week agone aft it learnt that Bhowmick was among the dissidents, according to enactment sources.

It had earlier been operating retired of Nadimul Haque’s residence, to which it has present returned.It turns retired that Bhowmick had placed a petition for caller accommodation and was allotted a level earlier this week successful Hooghly block, a benignant VII accommodation successful multi-storied apartments for MPs connected Bishambar Das Marg.Meanwhile, up of the rebel MPs’ gathering with Speaker connected Monday to question designation arsenic the "real TMC", the Mamata campy stepped up its attack.

TMC’s nationalist spokesperson Saket Gokhale claimed that "the divided effort is dead. The 91st amendment deleted it. Forming a 'separate group' has zero extortion nether law."He added, “A “merger” needs the full enactment to merge & not conscionable the legislative party. They tin merge lone if the full TMC merged with BJP -- not happening successful our lifetimes. Therefore, hide 20 MPs oregon two-thirds. Even if they had 25 retired of 28 signatures, they can’t 'merge' with BJP.”