India, May 29 -- Amid infighting in the Trinamool Congress after a massive loss to the BJP in West Bengal, party MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar's complaint against fellow TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee, accusing him of misogynistic comments, is set to be referred to a Parliamentary committee, HT has learnt. The matter is currently under consideration by the Lok Sabha Secretary General.

Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, in her letter to Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla, alleged that Banerjee "repeatedly verbally abused" her inside the House chambers. "This misogyny has been against many women members and needs to be punished," she wrote earlier, when she sought to file the complaint which she eventually did.

Two days before that, she stepped down as chief of the TMC's...