Trinamool Rebel Bloc To Merge With Nationalist Citizens Party: Kakoli Ghosh

20-rebel faction of the Trinamool Congress’s Lok Sabha MPs will merge with the Nationalist Citizens’ Party — a non-popular political party from Bengal that made its electoral debut from Tripura and failed to make any impact. Making the announcement today after meeting Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and submitting their letter, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, who is leading the rebel faction, said they will sit separately in parliament. “We command two-thirds majority. We will be part of the NDA and work under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” she added.

Rebel Trinamool Congress MPs met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla at his Delhi house this evening to demand a separate seating arrangement for themselves in the house, sources have said. The rebel MPs assert themselves as the “real Trinamool Congress”.

The list of MPs include Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Rachna Banerjee, Jagadish Chandra Barma, Partha Bhowmick, Arup Chakraborty, Adhikari Deepak Dev, Sayani Ghosh, Bapi Haldar, Abu Taher Khan, Kalipada Saren Kherwal, Asit Kumar, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, and a few others.

Sudip Bandyopadhyay, once close to Mamata Banerjee, has decided to stay with the dissident camp after an appeal from rebel MPs and MLAs.(UPDATED ON 14TH JUNE 2026)