Select between Abhishek Banerjee and us: Loyalists’ ultimatum to Mamata Banerjee | India Information
5 min learnKolkata, New DelhiJun 12, 2026 04:33 AM IST
As another Rajya Sabha MP of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) resigned Thursday, troubles mounted for get together chairperson Mamata Banerjee as two of her colleagues nonetheless thought-about a part of her faction gave her an ultimatum, saying she should select between her nephew and TMC’s Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee and those that had been standing by her. Banerjee, one of many MPs mentioned, should pay attention to the “grievances” in opposition to Abhishek and that he was together with her “as of now”.
This got here on a day a single-judge Bench of the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom granted Abhishek interim safety from any coercive motion by the CID for 3 weeks in a case of alleged signature forgery, whereas Rajya Sabha MP Prakash Chik Baraik, recognized to be near the TMC nationwide normal secretary, resigned from the Higher Home of Parliament. He’s the third TMC Rajya Sabha MP to resign this week.
Sreerampur MP Kalyan Banerjee — whom Mamata reinstated because the get together’s Lok Sabha chief whip final month — focused Abhishek after he and his son had been changed because the TMC quantity two’s advocates within the CID case. Mamata, he mentioned, “has to resolve whether or not she’s going to stick with Abhishek or us who’re sad with him”. Dum Dum MP Sougata Roy, in the meantime, advised The Indian Categorical in an interview that one of many grievances in opposition to the TMC “pertains to the high-handedness of Abhishek Banerjee” and the get together chief should deal with that.
“I had mentioned, ‘Don’t deal with me like a dustbin’; inform me whether or not I’ll seem within the case or not. Later, they knowledgeable me that Ayan Bhattacharya will battle the case. So, I left. I’ve 45 years of follow,” Kalyan advised reporters.
Persevering with his criticism of Abhishek, the veteran chief mentioned, “It’s due to him that we’ve to listen to chor chor (‘thief thief’) and our life is beneath risk. Even right this moment, within the get together’s dangerous days, I’m beside Didi … Mamata Banerjee has to resolve whether or not she’s going to stick with Abhishek or us who’re sad with him.”
Kalyan Banerjee’s son Sirsanya Bandopadhyay, additionally an advocate, mentioned they’d determined to withdraw their names from the petition by Abhishek. “From Might 5, we’ve been showing in court docket in get together issues. Round 1 am (on Thursday), we had been knowledgeable that another person will seem. So we made a acutely aware resolution to keep away from humiliation. Abhishek Banerjee didn’t name; his lawyer knowledgeable us. I’m undoubtedly damage. However I’m nonetheless a part of the TMC. The TMC isn’t Abhishek Banerjee. The TMC is Mamata Banerjee and its staff,” Sirsanya, who contested the current Meeting elections from Uttarpara in Hooghly district, advised The Indian Categorical.
Sougata Roy, who has claimed that the BJP reached out to him to affix the bloc of TMC’s insurgent parliamentarians, advised Categorical that Mamata should hearken to the “grievances of people who find themselves nonetheless with the get together” and heed to the complaints in opposition to her nephew.
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Sougata Roy
“She should discuss to folks. If there are grievances in opposition to Abhishek Banerjee, she should deal with these additionally. Secondly, she should additionally chart out a plan of motion. She is thought for her feisty persona, so she should battle this as a result of the BJP on the lowest stage is torturing Trinamool folks, beating them up, vandalising get together places of work, and placing TMC folks in jail. She should battle in opposition to it,” he mentioned.
Requested what these grievances had been, he mentioned, “One grievance pertains to the high-handedness of Abhishek Banerjee. The opposite is that there’s no person to hearken to the grievances throughout the get together.”
Roy mentioned “BJP bigwigs” had spoken to him and invited him to affix the insurgent group. Requested if he was nonetheless with Mamata Banerjee, the MP mentioned, “As of now.”
At current, Mamata Banerjee is combating a battle on two fronts: Kolkata and Delhi. First, on June 3, 58 of the get together’s 80 MLAs rebelled in opposition to her selection of Legislature Get together management and backed MLA Ritabrata Banerjee as its chief. Then, earlier than she might include the disaster, a bunch of parliamentarians raised the banner of revolt on June 8, with Barasat MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar claiming that 20 of the get together’s 28 Lok Sabha MPs wish to be recognised as a separate bloc and align with the BJP-led NDA. Three Rajya Sabha MPs have additionally resigned — Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Sushmita Dev, and now Baraik — bringing the get together’s tally within the Higher Home of Parliament to 10.
