“The more you torture us in Bengal, the more problems you will face in Delhi,” former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had warned the Bharatiya Janata Party on May 24. The Trinamool Congress chairperson was making her first public comments after her party lost West Bengal to the BJP as workers of her organisation were bearing the brunt of post-poll violence.
In the two weeks since then, though, it is the Trinamool whose problems have compounded, both in Bengal and Delhi. A majority of the party’s 80 MLAs defied Banerjee last week by choosing their own leader of opposition in the West Bengal Assembly. Media reports put their number at 58. On Monday, Trinamool MPs in the Lok Sabha broke into two groups.
MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, a veteran leader of the party, told reporters in Delhi that as many as 20 of the Trinamool’s 28 Lok Sabha MPs had decided to ally with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance to work for the state’s “development”. Banerjee’s party is the third-largest constituent of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance and has been a fierce opponent of the BJP for years.
The leading faces of this rebellion within the Trinamool have trained their guns on the party’s national general secretary, Abhishek...
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