India, June 9 -- It just took a week for the crisis Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress is facing in Bengal to reach Parliament in Delhi. On Monday, at least 14 members of Parliament of the TMC met West Bengal's BJP chief minister Suvendu Adhikari, a past TMC defector himself, to discuss breaking away from the party and make a separate bloc which would potentially support the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Front.

Now, Mamata Banerjee, who was at the helm of power in West Bengal over a month back, having been chief minister for three straight terms since 2011, finds herself fighting battles on several fronts to keep her party intact - Parliament, legislative assembly, and civic bodies. She found TMC in 1998 after breaking...