Published: 12:31 AM, 09 June 2026
Crisis in Trinamool Congress deepens as legislators resign
The crisis within the Trinamool Congress has deepened.
What began as a rebellion among MLAs in West Bengal following the party's defeat in the Assembly Polls has now spread to Parliament, with resignations and open dissent.
Arguably, the most dangerous development to date has now occurred with reports of MPs joining the NDA and ex-senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Sukhendu Sekhar Ray declaring that the Trinamool Congress "will not survive" in its current form. Ray even suggested that more MPs could join the rebellion. The party is now facing "an existential crisis in both Bengal and Delhi", underlining the scale of the turmoil.
The immediate trigger for the crisis was the rebellion among Trinamool MLAs following the party's defeat in the 2026 West Bengal Assembly Elections. Dissident legislators challenged the leadership, exposing fault lines that had remained hidden during the party's years in power.
Over two-thirds of TMC MLAs are already in open revolt, highlighting the extraordinary scale of the internal breakdown. The origins of this unrest lie in the immediate aftermath of the electoral defeat, when several leaders began expressing "displeasure against the party leadership and the high-handedness of Abhishek Banerjee", according to a number of news outlets. Now, that unrest has escalated to the national stage. According to the report, around 20 dissident MPs have written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla seeking to join the NDA. Sources told the outlet that Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar would lead this faction of the TMC. The Barasat MP has been considered a close aide of Mamata.
The report describes this as a coordinated move by a group of MPs who are no longer willing to function within the party's existing structure-a crisis that could have national implications. It also calls the development a blow of seismic proportions to Mamata Banerjee's carefully crafted legacy.
