New Delhi, July 27 -- The high-stakes political fallout from the 2026 West Bengal Assembly election defeat reached the corridors of Parliament on Monday, as Trinamool Congress (TMC) Parliamentary Party leader Abhishek Banerjee held a crucial meeting with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.

The 20-minute discussion focused on TMC's demand to fast-track disqualification proceedings against 20 rebel MPs, led by veterans Sudip Bandyopadhyay and Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, who broke ranks in June following internal turmoil over the election loss.

To evade the Tenth Schedule (Anti-Defection Law), the breakaway faction (representing over two-thirds of TMC's 28 Lok Sabha members) announced a merger with the Tripura-based Nationalist Citizens Party of Ind...