New Delhi, June 14 -- The "AITC [Trinamool Congress, TMC] is a single, indivisible political party," said Mamata Banerjee's faction in a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Sunday.

The letter was submitted by TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, following reports where rebel leader Kakoli Ghosh was quoted as saying that dissident MPs would meet Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday to seek recognition as a separate parliamentary bloc.

In the letter, the All India Trinamool Congress Parliamentary Party stated, "This letter is to place on record, respectfully but firmly, the constitutional and legal position governing any such request, and to request that no recognition of the nature reported be accorded."

"The AITC is a ...