Overview
- On Thursday, Oct 1, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury publicly asked Mamata Banerjee to rejoin the Congress with her remaining MLAs and MPs and said the party would accept her leadership in West Bengal.
- The Trinamool Congress is fractured: the state legislature wing split with a 58-MLA rebel bloc backing expelled leader Ritabrata Banerjee and the Assembly Speaker recognising that group.
- Mamata attended an INDIA bloc meeting in Delhi on Wednesday where she demanded Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar resign and the alliance agreed coordinated protests, including a march to the Election Commission on October 6.
- A separate rebellion among TMC MPs has taken a different course by joining the NCPI and extending support to the NDA at the Centre, deepening the party's parliamentary split and weakening central control.
- The offer from Congress, delivered with a demand that Mamata drop her 'baggage' referring to Abhishek Banerjee, sets up a choice that could reshape opposition margins in bypolls and determine whether the TMC dissolves, realigns, or fragments further.