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Mahua Moitra accused TMC MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay of ‘secretly’ meeting Union minister Bhupender Yadav in Delhi.
TMC MP Mahua Moitra (Image PTI)
In a fresh sign of deepening rifts within the Trinamool Congress (TMC), party MP Mahua Moitra has levelled serious allegations against senior leader and Kolkata North MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay, accusing him of misleading the party about his whereabouts while allegedly meeting a Union minister in New Delhi.
The controversy erupted on Sunday after Moitra took to social media platform X to claim that Bandyopadhyay had informed party colleagues he was admitted to a hospital in Kolkata with a stomach ailment. According to her, he was later seen on television at the residence of Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav in the national capital.
“His mask & his wig both come off – Sudip Bandyopadhyay told us he was in Apollo Kolkata with a tummy bug when we suddenly saw him on tv in Delhi in Bhupinder Yadav home. Dada pls change your X handle to @SudipBJPBTeam at least. Don’t use our name,” Moitra wrote in her post, directly questioning his loyalty to the party.
His mask & his wig both come off – @SudipBAITC told us he was in Apollo Kolkata with a tummy bug when we suddenly saw him on tv in Delhi in Bhupinder Yadav home. Dada pls change your X handle to @SudipBJPBTeam at least. Dont’ use our name.— Mahua Moitra (@MahuaMoitra) June 13, 2026
Moitra was not the only TMC leader to criticise Bandyopadhyay. Party leader Kunal Ghosh also launched a sharp attack, invoking Bandyopadhyay’s past political switches and suggesting that he had not been loyal to the trust placed in him by the party leadership.
“Mamata didi gave positions and honour to these people, and this is what these people give in return. Sudip Bandyopadhyay has a history of changing parties,” Ghosh said, referring to former West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee.
Ghosh further alleged that Bandyopadhyay’s political journey had been sustained by misleading Mamata Banerjee, adding that he had earlier raised concerns about the leader within the party.
“We had said that he is not good and his politics worked only by misleading Mamata didi. I was once suspended by the party for it. Today, it is being proved that what I said that day was correct,” he claimed.
These remarks come against the backdrop of escalating internal tensions within the TMC. Reports suggest that 20 Lok Sabha MPs, who have formed a separate bloc in the lower house and claim to represent the “real TMC”, are set to meet Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on June 15 (Monday) to demand a separate seating arrangement.
(ANI Inputs)
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