Asad Rehman

Sources in the TMC said Mamata's meeting was to discuss coordination among the INDIA bloc parties. The meeting at Sonia's 10, Janpath, residence in Delhi lasted an hour.

She was part of the cohort of young leaders who formed Rahul Gandhi's inner circle when he took his first steps in the Congress.

Abhishek Manu Singhvi said Natarajan’s nomination was rejected “on the non-existence of even cognisance, which means there is no criminal case, which she could have disclosed”.

As part of its proposed organisational overhaul at state and central levels, Congress plans a reshuffle of AICC secretaries, with about 50% of secretaries likely to be replaced

The letter said that no member or set of members can, by their own volition, carve out a parallel "group" or "faction" of the same party and claim independent recognition within the House.

Minutes before the meeting, the Mamata Banerjee camp had reached out to the Speaker and urged him not to accord “any recognition... to any purported separate group or faction of the AITC”.

Led by founder Shiuli Kundu, the Nationalist Citizens Party of India has been active in Assam and Tripura in recent years. It contested the Tripura Assembly polls in 2023.

The Speaker's office cleared Abhishek Banerjee's request for a meeting on Monday, but he was unable to attend because of ongoing ED questioning in Kolkata, TMC sources said.

An SIT being formed to probe allegations of irregularities in donation funds to the Ram Temple in Ayodhya is ‘an admission that some fraud has happened’, UP Congress president Ajay Rai said.

Abhishek said TMC hopes that being the custodian of the House, Speaker functions as per the Constitution.