Kolkata : A small political party that struggled to gain support in the 2023 Tripura Assembly elections has suddenly come into the national spotlight. This happened after 20 rebel Trinamool Congress MPs announced that they were joining the party and asked Parliament to recognise them as a separate group.
The move came amid an escalating rebellion within the Trinamool Congress, with dissident MPs meeting Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and seeking separate seating arrangements in the House. “We have merged with the NCPI. We will decide our strategy over time,” rebel TMC MP Satabdi Roy told reporters after meeting the Speaker. Asked about the party symbol, Roy said, “We did not claim it. The Speaker will decide what to do.”
Shantanu Saha oversees the party’s activities in Tripura, while Tarun Kumar Roy is associated with its operations from Kolkata. Election records show that the NCPI fielded candidates in four constituencies – Chawamanu, Ambassa, Karamchara and Kailashahar. Its campaign slogan was strikingly anti-defection in tone: “To save your rights, reject political turncoats. Support social workers, not political personalities.”
“I contested the polls in 2023. What has happened now, three years later?” he asked after being informed that a group of Lok Sabha MPs had joined the party under whose banner he had contested. Barjeda said he entered the electoral fray after being approached by a person named Krishna Debbarma. After meeting Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, rebel MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar said two-thirds of the TMC’s Lok Sabha members had submitted a letter seeking recognition as a separate group.
The development has transformed the NCPI overnight from a little-known registered unrecognised political party into a key player in one of the biggest political upheavals facing the Trinamool Congress. Registered unrecognised political parties are organisations registered with the Election Commission but which have not yet met the criteria required to be recognised as either a state party or a national party.
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