India, July 15 -- A day after his wife and two sons were summoned for questioning by the central agency Enforcement Directorate in a corruption-linked case, Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra on Wednesday shifted allegiance from Mamata Banerjee's camp to the rebel faction led by Ritabrata Banerjee. He said he had "only changed my room in assembly".

He said he wanted Mamata's nephew and the party's national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee - who has been blamed by many rebels for the TMC split - to "step aside for six months" but quit when that demand was not accepted.

"I told ]Abhishek], let us build the party, and then you can come back and take your seat, but he refused. He said, 'I won't leave the party.' The party is sinking; the...