Prateek Tanmay
1 min readKolkataJun 3, 2026 11:31 AM IST
First published on: Jun 3, 2026 at 11:29 AM IST
In what signals trouble for Mamata Banerjee, expelled Trinamool Congress MLA Ritabrata Banerjee has reached the West Bengal Assembly with a letter, claiming that a significant number of the party’s MLAs back him.
Sources indicate that the rebel faction is courting as many as 59 MLAs – nearly three-fourth of the party’s 80 MLAs.
This comes less than a month after the Trinamool Congress suffered a crushing defeat in the Bengal polls, and the Suvendu Adhikari-led BJP came to power in the eastern state.
