New Delhi, June 14 -- Amid the ongoing rebellion by around 20 Trinamool Congress (TMC) Lok Sabha MPs within the party, TMC's Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghose on Sunday asserted that there is no legal provision under the anti-defection law for a "separate group" to function inside the House while continuing to hold seats won on a party's symbol.

In a post on X, Ghose referred to Paragraph 4 of the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution, stating that an MP or MLA can avoid disqualification only in the case of a formal merger between political parties, and even then, only under specific conditions.

She explained that legislators would either have to join the merged party or choose not to accept the merger, but emphasised that individual or breaka...