Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar has written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, lodging a formal "complaint against abuse" against party MP Kalyan Banerjee. Dastidar has accused party colleague Kalyan Banerjee of verbally abusing her inside Parliament and misogynistic behaviour towards women parliamentarians.
The development assumes significance as it comes barely a day after the four-term Barasat MP quit all organisational posts in the TMC and launched a stinging political diatribe against sections of the party leadership. She, however, continues to be an MP of Barasat, which she won on a TMC ticket.
In her letter to the Speaker, Ghosh Dastidar sought permission to formally register the complaint and demanded action against Kalyan Banerjee.
"I seek your permission to lodge a formal complain to you for redressal against Lok Sabha Member of AITC Kalyan Banerjee, who has repeatedly verbally abused me inside the Lok Sabha. This misogyny has been against many lady members and needs to be punished," the letter read.
Neither Banerjee nor the TMC leadership immediately reacted to the complaint.
The complaint comes amid deepening faultlines within the TMC following its drubbing in the assembly election, with public display of dissent and internal unease increasingly spilling into the open.
One of the Trinamool Congress' strongest and most enduring power centres, the West Bengal's civic bodies, have been rocked with a wave of resignations and public expressions of discontent exposing signs of strain in structures that once formed the backbone of its grassroots machinery.
In the latest blow, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) councillors Sushanta Ghosh and Arup Chakraborty resigned from key civic posts on Wednesday, using the occasion to launch an unusually candid attack on the party leadership and its post-defeat handling of the situation.
Ghosh resigned as chairman of Borough XII, while Chakraborty stepped down as chairman of the civic body's accounts committee. Both, however, retained their councillor posts.
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