Kolkata, May 25 -- Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, who quit as the party's Barasat district president post, accused the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) of treating party workers "poorly" in the run up to the 2026 West Bengal assembly polls and claimed that political consultancy firm was not "directly under the control" of Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee.

The TMC leader said, "They (I-PAC) had absolutely no manners of working; they spoke very rudely. These workers of ours, they aren't servants. We don't pay them a salary; they work out of love for Mamata didi and love for the party. They treated people poorly, and their arrogance grew to such an extent that they eventually began treating us badly as...