Trinamool Congress heading for split similar to those seen in Maharashtra, claims West Bengal minister Tapas Roy

Kolkata: West Bengal minister Tapas Roy on Tuesday claimed that the opposition TMC was heading towards a split similar to the ones witnessed in Maharashtra.

Speaking to reporters outside the assembly, Roy claimed the TMC had accommodated people with little political background and that internal contradictions were now surfacing.

Asserting that the TMC was undergoing an inevitable process of fragmentation, the BJP MLA of Maniktala claimed it would eventually disappear from the state's political landscape.


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"There is growing dissatisfaction among many leaders and legislators. The developments indicate that the party is heading towards a split, a situation similar to what happened in Maharashtra," claimed the veteran leader, who switched over to the BJP from the TMC in 2024.

Earlier, senior TMC MLA Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay asserted that the majority of the party legislators would remain with supremo Mamata Banerjee, and the old guards would continue to retain control of the organisation.

He alleged that attempts were being made by the ruling dispensation to engineer defections and destabilise the opposition, but maintained that the TMC was united.

Expelled TMC MLA Ritabrata Banerjee, who is believed to be the leader of the rebel camp, claimed that the party has been "hijacked by I-PAC and no longer belongs to Mamata Banerjee".

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Banerjee made the comment outside the assembly, with his visit to the House when it is not in session fuelling further speculations.