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Trinamool Congress Expels Two MLAs Over Alleged Anti-Party Activities

Tuesday, June 2, 2026
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Trinamool Congress Expels Two MLAs Over Alleged Anti-Party Activities

The Trinamool Congress decided Monday to kick out two MLAs, Ritabrata Bandyopadhyay and Sandipan Saha. The reason? Alleged anti-party activities. A letter went to the Speaker detailing this decision, naturally.

The party claimed these legislators were repeatedly skipping meetings and getting involved in things that didn’t suit the AITC interests. They said it was observed that they were making statements that were just plain prejudicial.

"Anyone who speaks of morality," Sandipan Saha told ANI, "is automatically anti-party activity, just because the party itself doesn't live by any moral code. If we’re suspended for upholding some sense of morality today, honestly, we’re quite pleased."

It was a strange thing to hear.

The official notices stated that after some consideration, the AITC's competent authority had decided to expel them from the party membership right away. They said these two MLAs would lose any role, responsibility, or privilege they had within the Trinamool Congress from that moment on.

But the real friction seemed to come from something else entirely.

These two MLAs were expelled after they complained to the Assembly Speaker. They argued they hadn't signed the proposal letter naming the Leader of Opposition.

Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari dropped a bombshell on Monday. He claimed that the letter proposing Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay as Leader of Opposition didn't have their signatures. That whole thing got sent to the Assembly Secretary, and a complaint followed.

And it wasn't just them. The Chief Minister also suggested that three other TMC MLAs had already pointed out that the signatures on that resolution letter were fake. The West Bengal CID had even served a notice to the general secretary, Abhishek Banerjee, about this whole ‘fake signature’ probe.

Sandipan and Ritabrata were part of a larger group. They were among the sixty MLAs who missed a key meeting called by the TMC leadership.

Sandipan defended his absence. He argued the meeting at Mamata Banerjee’s residence was called without proper procedure. He questioned Abhishek Banerjee about the signature mess.

"A meeting happened. It had a resolution about the party leader, the deputy leader, and the chief whip," he said. "But they pushed this resolution to the Assembly without following the rules. Then it was scrutinized because the process was broken. Now the subjudice is passed. Then another meeting is called. Was that meeting even called after checking the procedures? That’s why I felt there was no point in showing up."

Only about twenty MLAs actually showed up for that gathering. That caused the leadership to postpone it for now.

TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh linked the absence of the legislators to the "sudden and emergent ground situation" following the alleged attack on Abhishek Banerjee in Sonarpur back on May 30th. Things were clearly simmering.

Written by Gree News Team — Senior Editorial Board

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