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NEW DELHI: TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee was heckled with chants of "Chor Chor" and "Jai Shri Ram" astatine Kolkata airdrome connected Tuesday amid the escalating governmental turmoil wrong the Trinamool Congress.As Banerjee stopped to talk with reporters aft exiting the airport, helium confronted the protesters and deed backmost astatine the BJP. The TMC person alleged that BJP person Suvendu Adhikari was the existent thief and went connected to impeach Adhikari's begetter of the same.
The confrontation comes arsenic the Trinamool Congress faces what could go the biggest interior situation successful its 28-year history.Weeks aft a bruising decision successful the West Bengal Assembly elections, the enactment is present grappling with a large rebellion that threatens its power successful the authorities and could perchance fortify the BJP-led NDA's presumption successful Parliament.The TMC is reportedly witnessing a 2nd question of defections, with astatine slightest 20 MPs said to person submitted a missive to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla expressing enactment for the NDA. If the claims are accurate, the rebel faction would comfortably transverse the two-thirds threshold required to debar disqualification nether the anti-defection law.Addressing a property league earlier, Banerjee dismissed the dissidents arsenic "traitors" and challenged them to resign from the enactment and question a caller mandate from voters.
He claimed the rebels had exposed themselves by gathering elder BJP person Bhupender Yadav and accused them of abandoning enactment workers portion continuing to bask the benefits of office.Banerjee besides argued that the rebel campy does not yet person the numbers required to safely navigate the anti-defection law. Calling them "gaddars", helium accused the dissidents of being driven by a hunger for power.In a crisp onslaught connected the BJP, Banerjee said, "You person the CM, ED, CBI and different powers, but I person 'Maa, Maati, Maanush', my party, my enactment workers, and the radical of West Bengal."
