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TMC turmoil highlights: TMC's Kakoli Ghosh claims around 20 MPs to support NDA
TMC turmoil highlights: The rift within the Trinamool Congress has only widened with MP Kakoli Ghosh leading the MPs' rebellion days after MLAs' revolt jolted Mamata's party.
- 8:31 PM IST, June 8Want to work for national interest and state development, says rebel TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh
- 8:30 PM IST, June 8‘Mandate was NOT for NDA’, Mahua Moitra lashes out at rebel TMC MPs
- 7:51 PM IST, June 8Mahua Moitra with Mamata amid TMC implosion
- 7:47 PM IST, June 8At INDIA bloc meeting, Congress is called ‘glue’ as 23 parties target 2029
- 7:04 PM IST, June 820 TMC MPs seek alliance with NDA, says Kakoli Dastidar
- 6:56 PM IST, June 8Mamata-led TMC moves Cal HC against Assembly Speaker's decision to recognise Ritabrata as LoP
- 6:48 PM IST, June 8‘I got an offer’: TMC MP seeks INDIA bloc support for Mamata
- 6:44 PM IST, June 813 TMC MPs, led by Sukhendu Ray and Kakoli Dastidar, meet Bengal CM
- 6:31 PM IST, June 8As TMC crack travels to Delhi, Mamata looks for warmth in INDIA situationship
- 5:56 PM IST, June 8Wherever Rahul is present, no one’s fortunes will prosper, Sambit Patra's dig
- 5:50 PM IST, June 8Our concern is people's distress, says KC Venugopal
- 5:49 PM IST, June 8DMK has always been part of INDIA bloc, says Cong MP Syed Naseer Hussain
- 5:27 PM IST, June 8Lack unity, suffered defeat, says Eknath Shinde on absence of AAP, DMK in INDIA bloc meet
- 4:32 PM IST, June 8Congress' cryptic remark for PM Modi
- 4:19 PM IST, June 8Akhilesh Yadav calls for brotherhood
- 3:53 PM IST, June 8Uddhav Thackeray, Hemant Soren joined Oppn meeting online, says Kharge
- 3:52 PM IST, June 8Delhi IYC takes down posters targeting Rahul ahead of oppn meet
- 3:51 PM IST, June 8'INDIA Bloc to write to CJI on SIR, demands edu min's resignation over NEET-UG paper leak'
- 3:22 PM IST, June 8What are the key 5 decisions taken at INDIA bloc meeting?
- 3:13 PM IST, June 8Agreement reached on raising 5 issues, says Kharge after INDIA bloc meet
- 3:07 PM IST, June 8Kerala BJP leader hits out at INDIA bloc
- 3:03 PM IST, June 8Kharge hails opposition unity
- 3:00 PM IST, June 8They are not in our alliance, says DMK
- 2:26 PM IST, June 8AAP, DMK absent from key oppn meet
- 2:24 PM IST, June 8Opposition leaders seek unity, deliberate to redraw strategy
- 2:07 PM IST, June 8Karnataka Congress MLC says BJP treated Mamata Banerjee ‘poorly’
- 2:01 PM IST, June 8Yogendra Yadav comes to join the meeting
- 1:44 PM IST, June 8RSP MP welcomes opposition meet
- 1:34 PM IST, June 8Tamil Nadu BJP leader slams opposition alliance
- 1:31 PM IST, June 8Leaders stress need to 'safeguard democratic values'
- 1:20 PM IST, June 8INDIA bloc has no 'purpose', BJP's Shehzad Poonawalla says; slams opposition's ‘paper’ alliance
- 1:15 PM IST, June 8Meeting of key INDIA bloc leaders to be convened soon to iron out differences, Sharad Pawar says
- 1:03 PM IST, June 8Mallikarjun Kharge slams the government over foreign policy
- 1:01 PM IST, June 8Kharge flags SIR process
- 12:57 PM IST, June 8Kharge targets BJP over exam failures
- 12:53 PM IST, June 8Kharge hails opposition unity
- 12:50 PM IST, June 8Meet will ‘bring us together’, says former Karnataka minister
- 12:46 PM IST, June 8Youth Congress workers remove posters targeting Rahul Gandhi
- 12:36 PM IST, June 8Supriya Sule flags economic crisis, unemployment and corruption
- 12:27 PM IST, June 8Akhilesh Yadav calls for ‘bandhu raj’
- 12:23 PM IST, June 8UP deputy CM calls opposition alliance a ‘group of power-hungry leaders’
- 12:19 PM IST, June 8Visuals from the Constitution Club
- 12:05 PM IST, June 8Mallikarjun Kharge arrives
- 12:04 PM IST, June 8Omar Abdullah reaches the venue
- 12:04 PM IST, June 8Sonia Gandhi at Constitution Club
- 12:00 PM IST, June 8CPP Chairperson Sonia Gandhi leaves for the meet
- 11:45 AM IST, June 8Congress general secretary KC Venugopal arrives
- 11:35 AM IST, June 8Congress MP says anti-Rahul Gandhi posters BJP's desperation'
- 11:31 AM IST, June 8Congress leader Pawan Khera arrives
- 11:25 AM IST, June 8Congress leader slams BJP after posters targeting Rahul Gandhi appear in Delhi
- 11:13 AM IST, June 8VCK to be part of the meet
- 11:08 AM IST, June 8What TVK's absence means
- 11:03 AM IST, June 8Omar Abdullah reaches Delhi
- 10:45 AM IST, June 8JD(U) says opposition alliance ‘should be formally dissolved’
- 10:39 AM IST, June 8DMK in wait-and-watch mode
- 10:30 AM IST, June 8BJP calls opposition alliance a ‘corrupt dynastic political coalition’
- 10:22 AM IST, June 8JMM, Cong nominees to file nomination for Rajya Sabha polls on Monday as alliance candidates
- 10:18 AM IST, June 8Congress leader says don't want to see DMK ‘weakened’
- 10:11 AM IST, June 8Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray to attend the meet virtually
- 10:05 AM IST, June 8NCP (Sharad Pawar) MP Supriya Sule arrives in Delhi for meet
- 9:59 AM IST, June 8Alliance formed for national interest, says Samajwadi MP
- 9:40 AM IST, June 8Posters targeting Congress, Rahul Gandhi, seen in Delhi
- 9:28 AM IST, June 8JMM says meet outcome ‘will be positive’
- 9:18 AM IST, June 8Congress upbeat about the state of the alliance
- 9:11 AM IST, June 8Not all is well within the alliance
- 9:04 AM IST, June 8What is on the agenda?
- 9:03 AM IST, June 8New inclusion?
- 8:57 AM IST, June 8When will the meet begin?
- 8:50 AM IST, June 8Who is expected to attend?
- 8:45 AM IST, June 8BJP's Dilip Ghosh takes a swipe at TMC, opposition alliance
- 8:36 AM IST, June 8DMK, AAP to skip meet
TMC turmoil highlights: The rift within the Trinamool Congress has only widened with MP Kakoli Ghosh leading the MPs' rebellion days after MLAs' revolt jolted Mamata's party. As many as 13 Trinamool Congress MPs, led by Sukhendu Sekhar Ray and Kakoli Ghosh, met West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari at a BJP minister's residence on Monday, a move that comes amid growing speculation of a split in the Mamata Banerjee-led party....Read More
These MPs also plan to write a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, requesting that they be allotted seats as a separate faction
While the party struggles to stay afloat following its poll debacle in Bengal, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee attended the INDIA bloc meeting in Delhi on Monday.
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge said a total of 25 parties met for the Opposition alliance meeting in Delhi on Monday and took 5 five key decisions. The alliance group has decided to meet more often now, and the next meeting will be held in Hyderabad in August.
The opposition bloc, Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), met at New Delhi's Constitution Club on Monday to mend ties amid differences among the constituents and the recent electoral losses of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, respectively.
However, DMK and Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) skipped the meeting. The DMK had last week announced their decision to not attend the meeting, as it cited Congress's post-poll alliance with the TVK in Tamil Nadu
What's on the agenda?
Congress leader KC Venugopal said that the meeting's agenda will be revealed after it is held. He said the opposition is discussing the current political scenario in India.
"The way in which the Government of India is bulldozing anti-democratic attitudes, and the issue of students. We have to discuss a lot of issues in this meeting. The INDIA alliance meeting is an important meeting," Venugopal added.
Mamata in Delhi amid TMC trouble
Trinamool Congress supremo and former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee arrived in Delhi on Sunday for the INDIA bloc meeting.
Banerjee is already knee-deep in a crisis in her home ground, especially after TMC's disastrous loss in the 2026 West Bengal assembly polls. Following the election results, her party was embroiled in its own controversies, with 58 rebel MLAs appointing their own leader of opposition in the state assembly. The rumours of a split in Mamata Banerjee's party have been growing by the day.
In Monday's meeting, Banerjee is likely to suggest a united electoral front against the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the 2029 Lok Sabha elections.
BJP's swipe at the India bloc meet
BJP MP Manoj Tigga said that the INDIA bloc comes together "whenever there is an election, a crisis, or when they face a crushing electoral defeat". He said that the opposition bloc has "no significance".
Meanwhile, BJP MP Saumitra Khan hit out at TMC, questioning the party's value in West Bengal. "It is joining hands with the Congress again. TMC had effectively destroyed the Congress, and now that you’ve joined hands with them, who is going to accept it?” he asked.
