Kolkata, June 13 -- Senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay on Saturday met Union minister Bhupender Yadav in Delhi accompanied by rebel TMC MP Satabdi Roy.

The meeting comes 24 hours after a group of 19 dissident TMC MPs announced that they are likely to meet speaker Om Birla next week to seek recognition as the "real TMC" parliamentary group.

Bandyopadhyay was not among the 19 MPs who signed a letter expressing support for a separate parliamentary party faction of the TMC.

The letter is signed by Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Satabdi Roy, Bapi Haldar, Sharmila Sarkar, Prasun Bandyopadhyay, Jagadish Barma Basunia, Asit Kumar Mal, Arup Chakraborty, Rachna Banerjee, Saayoni Ghosh, Khalilur Rahaman, Abu Taher Khan, Yusuf Path...