Rebel TMC MPs to join Tripura-based NCP, to support NDA

The 20-strong rebel faction of the Trinamool Congress's Lok Sabha MPs will merge with the Nationalist Citizens' Party-that made its electoral debut from Tripura and failed to make any impact. Making the announcement after meeting Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and submitting their letter, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, who is leading the rebel faction, said they will sit separately in parliament. "We command two-thirds majority. We will be part of the NDA and work under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi," she added. The move will deepen the crisis within the Trinamool -- which has 28 MPs in Lok Sabha -- and drastically bring down the Opposition numbers in the lower house ahead of the Monsoon session of parliament.

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Senior TMC leader and Lok Sabha MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay said dissident camp had already merged the with the Nationalist Citizens Party, which he described as a regional party. The Nationalist Citizens Party is a lesser-known registered, unrecognised party from Tripura. Asked about the competing claim of the Mamata Banerjee-led faction, Bandyopadhyay said the issue of who constitutes the "real TMC" would be decided by the courts, and added that they would claim the party's electoral symbol of two flowers."Court will decide later who is the real TMC. We met the Speaker and gave him our request," he said.