Sukhendu Ray quits Trinamool; 20 party MPs meet Suvendu in new trouble for Mamata

New Delhi( The Indian View team) : After Mamata Banerjee lost her grip over the Trinamool Congress's MLAs, a second wave of setbacks has now hit the party's parliamentary ranks, with Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, the TMC's longest-serving member in the Rajya Sabha for over a decade, resigning both as an MP and from the party.

In a development reminiscent of last week's split in the Bengal Assembly, the Trinamool Congress's parliamentary wing also appeared to be heading in a similar direction, with at least five party MPs seen alongside Sukhendu shortly after his resignation in a photograph.

Sources revealed that 20 of the TMC's 29 Lok Sabha MPs later met BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, who reached Delhi on Monday as the political crisis within the Trinamool Congress spilled over into the national capital.

In his resignation letter to Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, Sukhendu said the people of Bengal had "rejected the party's rampant corruption, extreme oppression of women, and its utter failure and the severe anarchy prevailing across sectors, including education, healthcare, industry, employment, and law and order."