| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
If the matter comes to the Rajya Sabha, Chairman C.P. Radhakrishnan is the one who will take the final decision.
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
In the Lok Sabha, Speaker Om Birla will take the decision on recognition of the faction.
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
When the matter comes up, chairman Rathendra Bose will decide in whose favour it should go, but he too will consult the by-laws, records and the constitution before deciding.
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Champat Rai told police that no concrete complaint of theft or irregularity in the offerings had been received earlier; a few people gave suggestions about monitoring, but no problem or evidence of wrongdoing ever emerged.
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The police asked Champat Rai whether he ever felt, on seeing the figures, that something was not right.
offering irregularity probe
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Champat Rai told police that counting donations and depositing them in the bank were the responsibilities of separate teams, and that offering-related reports reached him only through employees.
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The police then asked Champat Rai whether he was informed every month about how much offering money came in and how much was deposited in the bank.
offering deposit oversight
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Champat Rai told police that donation information was shared in Trust meetings, but details of every transaction were not included.
Trust donation records
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The police asked Champat Rai whether information about donations and offerings was shared in the Trust's meetings.
Ram Mandir donation probe
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
What happened in Maharashtra — where the party and symbol went to Eknath Shinde's rebel faction over Uddhav Thackeray — appears to be repeating in Bengal with the TMC.
Shiv Sena 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.
fund legal battle
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The allies who once moved as Mamata Banerjee's shadow have abandoned her, and she is now truly forced to walk alone.
Mamata isolated
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Rabindranath Tagore wrote the song 'Ekla Chalo Re' in 1905.
Tagore song
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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 the haste with which the accounts were frozen the day after the FIR.
HC account freeze ruling
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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, which held ₹440 crore.
TMC accounts frozen
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The fight within TMC is not just over control of the party but also over ₹1000 crore lying in the party's accounts.
party fund dispute
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The final decision on recognizing the rebel faction rests with assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose in the assembly, Om Birla in the Lok Sabha, and Chairman C.P. Radhakrishnan in the Rajya Sabha — not with Mamata or the rebels.
speaker recognition authority
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The West Bengal assembly Speaker has recognized the TMC rebel faction, and in the Lok Sabha the rebel TMC MPs have merged with the NCPI.
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Four of TMC's 13 Rajya Sabha MPs have already resigned, leaving the Mamata faction with only nine Rajya Sabha MPs.
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
TMC has 28 Lok Sabha MPs in total, of whom 20 have broken away — above the two-thirds requirement of 19 — leaving Mamata with eight.
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
TMC currently has 80 MLAs in the assembly, of which 58 are with the rebel faction — more than the two-thirds threshold of about 54 — while Mamata's faction has only 22.
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Under the anti-defection law in the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution, a party's rebel faction gets recognition only if two-thirds of the MLAs or MPs are with the rebels.
anti-defection law
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
At the June 22 meeting, the rebel faction elected a new TMC president and vice-president and formed a new 30-member national executive the same day.
new TMC executive
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Ritabrata Banerjee, leader of the TMC rebel faction and Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal assembly, submitted the representation; a delegates' meeting was held under his leadership in Kolkata on June 22.
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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, and the Leader of Opposition post in the assembly was also lost.
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