New Delhi, July 27 -- Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Monday wrote a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla seeking urgent hearing on the disqualification petitions against 20 rebel party MPs who have joined the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI).

In his letter to the Speaker, Abhishek Banerjee, who is Leader of the Trinamool Congress Parliamentary Party in Lok Sabha, said that more than five weeks have elapsed since the petitions were filed and no notices have been issued, hearings have not been scheduled and noted that "such continued inaction is a matter of grave concern".

Banerjee recalled that the disqualification petitions were filed on June 19, 2026 and said that each of the twenty petitions should be heard a...