India, June 8 -- Weeks after being swept from power in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee was seated in New Delhi for a meeting of Opposition INDIA bloc. Another meeting some distance away was busy splitting her party further, as cracks that appeared upon her assembly defeat have now travelled northwards to the national capital.

She arrived for the INDIA meeting with nephew Abhishek Banerjee, the TMC's national general secretary who's been marked out by rebels as a chief reason for the party's loss and split. Neither spoke to the media when asked about a renewed unity push for the INDIA bloc, with which the TMC has had a political situationship so far.

The former West Bengal CM was seen seated to the right of Congress...