Trinamool dares rebels to quit party and join BJP

NEW DELHI: Things are heating up successful Delhi with TMC connected Tuesday fielding Kalyan Banerjee and Kirti Azad to instrumentality connected dissident MPs and questioning the assertion made by rebel MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar of having the enactment of 20 MPs and having written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla seeking designation arsenic a abstracted parliamentary bloc that would backmost NDA.Demanding that the missive claiming enactment of 20 MPs should beryllium placed successful nationalist domain, Banerjee challenged each dissident MPs to resign from TMC and articulation BJP.“Those who went to Union curate Bhupender Yadav’s residence and held meetings with Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari person efficaciously go BJP. Today, their person is Narendra Modi,” Banerjee and Azad said astatine a property conscionable successful Delhi connected Tuesday.“If the rebel MPs assertion they person the numbers required nether the Tenth Schedule, past wherefore person they not formally merged with the BJP? The information is that BJP has not officially accepted them contempt their efforts to align with it,” they said.Amid each the speculation and a time aft the INDIA bloc meeting, TMC’s Mamata Banerjee met Congress parliamentary enactment chairperson Sonia Gandhi astatine 10 Janpath successful what was seen arsenic Banerjee’s effort to further physique connected efforts to rally enactment arsenic her enactment faces its worst crisis.While nary details of Tuesday’s gathering were shared by either party, sources said Banerjee went into the gathering keen to stock with Sonia the TMC’s challenges during polls, her views connected the aboriginal strategy for Bengal and ways to fortify the INDIA bloc.