New Delhi : TMC suffered another setback on Thursday as Rajya Sabha MP Prakash Chik Baraik resigned from the Upper House. With Baraik’s resignation, the party’s strength in the Rajya Sabha is set to fall to 10 MPs. In his first reaction after resigning from the Rajya Sabha, Baraik said his decision was not made under pressure from the BJP. However, he went on to say that he would do whatever West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari asked of him.
The crisis among TMC parliamentarians began with the resignation of Mamata Banerjee’s trusted aide Sukhendu Sekhar Roy on Monday, while the TMC chief was in Delhi attending a series of meetings with INDIA bloc leaders, including Sonia Gandhi, to devise a national opposition strategy against the BJP and discuss the future course of her party after it suffered one setback after another following its rout in the 2026 Assembly polls.
Mamata’s hold over her legislative party appears to be weakening, with 58 of her 80 MLAs backing rebel MLA Ritabrata Banerjee. That number has now risen to 64, with Ritabrata — who was chosen as the Leader of the Opposition in the Bengal Assembly by Mamata’s colleagues, much to her chagrin — claiming that more MLAs will join the rebel camp in the coming days. As Mamata’s house in the Assembly came crashing down like a pack of cards, the rebellion soon spread to Delhi.
Led by Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, the breakaway bloc within the Trinamool has approached the Speaker seeking official recognition and has also expressed its intention to support the NDA. However, one of the biggest surprises on the list was Saayoni Ghosh, the TMC MP from Jadavpur, who had initially pledged her allegiance to Mamata following the party’s Assembly debacle.
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