The political crisis engulfing the Trinamool Congress (TMC) reached a high-voltage flashpoint on Monday, June 15, 2026, when the Lok Sabha Speaker’s office slapped TMC National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee with a thin, two-hour ultimatum to appear in New Delhi—at the exact moment he was locked inside an 11-hour interrogation by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Kolkata. The dramatic standoff unfolds as the Mamata Banerjee-led party battles a massive parliamentary rebellion, with 20 out of its 28 sitting Lok Sabha MPs—led by Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar—petitioning Speaker Om Birla to recognize their formal merger with the Tripura-based Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI), effectively tilting their allegiance to the BJP-led NDA. While Banerjee was isolated from his communication devices at the ED’s Salt Lake CGO complex in connection with a 2023 primary teacher recruitment scam, an urgent email dispatch from New Delhi at 2:00 PM demanded his presence at Parliament by 4:00 PM. Sounding the alarm, fellow lawmaker Kirti Azad physically intercepted the Speaker’s secretariat, clarifying that the Diamond Harbour MP was legally detained by federal investigators and could not fly out. Emerging from the marathon grilling near midnight—which followed an 8-hour state CID interrogation the previous day—a defiant Banerjee struck an uncompromising tone to reporters, declaring that even if his opponents “slit his throat,” he would not cower down to coordinated central pressure.

A viral internet joke turned into real violence in Jaipur. Abhijeet Dipke, the leader of a funny parody group called the ‘Cockroach Janta Party,’ was slapped during a peaceful student protest.

The internal fissures ripping through the Trinamool Congress (TMC) exploded into a full-scale parliamentary crisis on Sunday, June 14, 2026, as a powerful dissident faction formalized a strategy to break away from the party’s central high command. The rebel camp, marshaled by several disgruntled senior lawmakers, has officially scheduled a high-stakes meeting with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla for Monday morning to demand formal recognition as a separate parliamentary group. Claiming the allegiance of a “substantial number” of sitting TMC MPs, the faction aims to bypass the rigorous penal disqualifications of the Tenth Schedule (Anti-Defection Law) by proving they hold a definitive two-thirds legislative majority of the party’s elected lower-house strength. In Kolkata, the core leadership under West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee moved swiftly to contain the damage, fiercely condemning the mutiny as a treasonous conspiracy orchestrated to erode the regional party’s formidable clout in New Delhi. While the TMC high command prepares a slate of immediate suspension notices and legal counters, the outcome of Monday’s memorandum submission remains heavily dependent on the Speaker’s structural ruling, a decision that could radically alter national opposition alignments and shift the power balance within West Bengal’s hyper-polarized political ecosystem.

Following a historic electoral rout, the Trinamool Congress is facing an unprecedented internal collapse. With 60 state MLAs and 20 Lok Sabha MPs forming breakaway factions that bypass anti-defection laws, the battle has shifted to the courts and the Election Commission, where the very survival of the TMC name and symbol hangs in the balance.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay has renewed his opposition to the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), urging the Centre to allow states to admit students to MBBS, BDS, and AYUSH courses based solely on Class 12 examination marks.

The Trinamool Congress suffered another massive blow as Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev resigned from the party and Parliament. Citing the impracticality of pursuing Assam politics under a reeling TMC banner, her sudden exit coincides with a wider rebellion of 20 Lok Sabha MPs and 64 state MLAs.