Sravasti Dasgupta

The move was announced just hours after TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee shot off a letter to Speaker Om Birla and said law does not recognise the ‘splintering of a political party'.

NCPI's organisational secretary Shantanu Dey said to The Wire that he was opposed to the move to merge with corruption tainted TMC MPs who were named in the Narada and Sarada scams. The party's other leaders had recently celebrated the BJP win in Bengal.

NCPI’s organisational secretary Shantanu Dey said to The Wire that he was opposed to the move to merge with corruption tainted TMC MPs who were named in the Narada and Sarada scams. The partys other leaders had recently celebrated the BJP win in Bengal.

TMC MPs Chose to Merge With an Obscure Party – But They're Not Very Welcome There - Sravasti Dasgupta

President Shewly Kundu said to The Wire she had resigned about a month ago, and other office bearers said they were not in the know of developments relating to the merger or how and why it was taking effect.

President Shewly Kundu said to The Wire she had resigned about a month ago, and other office bearers said they were not in the know of developments relating to the merger or how and why it was taking effect.

As the Modi government looks to reintroduce the delimitation bill, despite defections in the opposition and repositioning of the INDIA bloc it may still fall short of 43 MPs to get a constitutional amendment passed in the Lok Sabha.

Listen to this article: Two months ago, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government had failed to pass a contentious delimitation Bill – which it had linked to women’s reservation – largely due to a united opposition vote...

Is the BJP engineering defects to manufacture a majority? Will the peace deal hold?

Is the BJP engineering defects to manufacture a majority? Will the peace deal hold?