India, May 28 -- Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar on Thursday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, alleging verbal abuse and misogynistic behaviour by fellow TMC member Kalyan Banerjee. Her grave allegations against her fellow party leader came a day after she resigned from all organisational posts she held in the TMC.

"I seek your permission to lodge a formal complaint to you for redressal against Lok Sabha Member of AITC Kalyan Banerjee, who has repeatedly verbally abused me inside the Lok Sabha," she wrote in the letter, posted by news agency ANI.

"This misogyny has been against many lady members and needs to be punished," Dastidar wrote to the Speaker.

The complaint comes a day after Dastidar resigned from all organisati...