Rebel TMC MPs seek merger with NCPI and pledge support to NDA

Meet Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and announce that they are merging with the registered regional party for time being.

New Delhi: The formal approval for the merger of the rebel faction of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), comprising 20 MPs, with the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) is likely to be delayed after Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla decided to meet the TMC leadership before taking a final call.Speaker seeks views from TMCThe Lok Sabha Secretariat wrote on Monday to TMC MP and Mamata Banerjee's nephew, Abhishek Banerjee, who is also the TMC floor leader in the Lok Sabha, regarding a meeting following the latter’s appeal to the Speaker asking him not to recognise any faction of the TMC.The letter suggested a meeting at 4 pm on Monday, but Banerjee was, at the time, being questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). It is likely that the Speaker will meet Banerjee later this week.“Speaker Om Birla will take a call on the issue of the merger of 20 TMC MPs with NCPI only after hearing both sides. The Speaker’s office has also emailed the TMC led by Mamata Banerjee,” Hindustan Times reported, citing a senior official.The meeting with the TMC leadership is part of due process but is unlikely to change anything.Earlier on Sunday, 19 Trinamool MPs met Birla and handed over a letter seeking to merge with NCPI. Another rebel TMC MP, Rachana Banerjee, who was in Malaysia at the time, met the Speaker on Tuesday.Rebel TMC MPs met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla at his residence, in Delhi todayAfter meeting him, Rebel TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar said, "We, the twenty MPs elected from the AITC, met the Speaker and submitted a letter requesting to sit separately; these twenty MPs constitute… pic.twitter.com/HTFttYCXdm— ANI (@ANI) June 14, 2026 Little-known Nationalist Citizens Party Set To Become Lok Sabha's 5th Largest Party After 20 Rebel TMC MPs Merge; Know Its RSS Link Notably, NCPI doesn't have a single MP/MLA anywhere in the country. If the merger gets approved, the party will become the NDA's second-largest party in the lower house, and the NCPI will also become the fifth-largest party in the Lok Sabha.

“Acceptance has already come to us. They [NCPI] are happy to take us. We will work together with the NDA under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah,” says Kakoli Dastidar

A group of rebel Trinamool Congress MPs led by Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar has now formally approached Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, seeking separate seating arrangements and announcing plans to merge with the Nationalist Citizen Party.

Will work with NDA for the interest of the country, says Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar

This came soon after party General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee told the Lok Sabha speaker not to recognise the rebel faction as a separate bloc.