India, June 15 -- Ahead of a planned meeting between rebel MPs and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Trinamool Congress parliamentary leader Abhishek Banerjee wrote to the Speaker, requesting that no recognition, status, or facility be granted to any group claiming to be a separate faction.

Party's Lok Sabha MP Kirti Azad and Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghosh delivered the letter from Banerjee to the Lok Sabha Speaker.

The letter, dated June 10, makes three main points to stop any claim of a separate group in the House. First, it states that the All India Trinamool Congress is a single, united political party.

Second, it emphasises that the Lok Sabha legislative party exists only because of the political party and does not have its own independe...