| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
After a rebel-faction complaint on 19 June, police froze TMC's three bank accounts holding Rs 440 crore on 20 June, and today (2 July) the High Court refused to unfreeze them while questioning the police's haste.
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Of TMC's 28 Lok Sabha MPs, 20 have broken away (above the two-thirds mark of 19), and 4 of its 13 Rajya Sabha MPs have already resigned, leaving Mamata's faction with 8 Lok Sabha and 9 Rajya Sabha MPs.
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Of TMC's 80 MLAs in the West Bengal assembly, 58 are with the rebel faction — more than the two-thirds threshold — while only 22 remain with Mamata Banerjee.
TMC MLA split
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Under rebel leader Ritabrata Banerjee, a representatives' meeting in Kolkata on 22 June elected a new TMC president and vice-president and formed a 30-member new national executive.
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
For the first time since the TMC split, the rebel faction today met the Election Commission's full bench, including Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, and sought recognition of the party's new national executive as the real TMC.
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Congress leader K.C. Venugopal has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding a Supreme Court-monitored probe into the donation theft, alleging the SIT probe is a sham that shields big people.
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
What happened in Maharashtra is repeating here: in the Eknath Shinde versus Uddhav Thackeray dispute, the party and its symbol went to Shinde, and the rebel became the rightful claimant of the original party.
Maharashtra split parallel
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The legal battle over control of the party funds will drag on for a long time, as neither faction is willing to negotiate.
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The situation currently does not look favorable for Mamata Banerjee.
Mamata's political decline
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
On June 30 the High Court refused an urgent hearing of TMC's petition, saying it would not treat the matter as a special case.
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Today, July 2, the High Court refused to unfreeze TMC's bank accounts, though it did question the police over why the accounts were frozen so hastily, the day after the FIR.
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
On June 19 the rebel faction filed a police complaint demanding an investigation into the source of funds in TMC's party accounts, and the very next day, June 20, police froze all three TMC bank accounts containing ₹440 crore.
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The fight within the TMC is not just over control of the party but also over ₹1000 crore lying in the party's accounts.
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
TMC has 28 Lok Sabha MPs in total, of whom 20 have broken away (exceeding the two-thirds threshold of 19), leaving Mamata Banerjee with eight.
TMC Lok Sabha split
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
TMC currently has 80 MLAs in the West Bengal Assembly, of whom 58 are with the rebel faction (more than the two-thirds threshold of 54) and only 22 remain with Mamata Banerjee.
TMC MLA split
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Mamata Banerjee lost her own seat, her party lost the election, she lost the Chief Minister's chair, the party president post was taken from her, she lost the Leader of Opposition position in the Assembly, and now there is a full attempt to take her party away from her.
Mamata's serial defeats
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Mamata Banerjee, who headed the government for 15 years, has completely lost control of the TMC.
TMC leadership crisis
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
For several days the opposition, including Asaduddin Owaisi, had been questioning why no bulldozer action was taken, playing the 'Muslim victim card' and invoking encounters.
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav claimed that hundreds of crores of rupees in offerings were stolen, but the anchor's own sources say that such a large amount is false.
theft amount dispute
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav has claimed hundreds of crores of rupees of offerings were stolen, but the channel's own sources say such a large amount is false.
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The entire INDIA alliance — Congress, Samajwadi Party, Shiv Sena UBT and Aam Aadmi Party — has become active on this issue for political gain and is relentlessly going after the BJP.
INDIA bloc politicization
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav claimed hundreds of crores of rupees in donations were stolen, but the anchor's own sources say such a large amount is a lie.
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Not one of the 61 Indian signatories got a single Pahalgam victim's family to sign the letter written to the two prime ministers.
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
61 Indians (including Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti, Manoj Jha, journalists and lawyers) and 57 Pakistanis jointly wrote a letter to the prime ministers of India and Pakistan urging resumption of talks, diplomatic ties, visas, sports, cultural exchange, border trade and bus services.
India-Pakistan peace letter
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| Amish Devgan |
2026-07-02 |
Since the Congress and Samajwadi Party have been allies, the SP will have to answer for the Tripura Congress post, and this will become an issue in the UP elections.
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