India, June 12 -- Just a month after losing power in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress (TMC) is quickly breaking apart. Most of the remaining legislators and parliamentarians have left the main group, taken over the party's legislative wing, and left Banerjee struggling to stop more splits.

In the 2026 Assembly elections, the BJP won about 208 seats, while TMC got around 80, down from 215 seats in 2021. Mamata Banerjee lost in Bhabanipur to the BJP's Suvendu Adhikari, who is now the Chief Minister. After the loss, the party quickly faced internal problems.

Around June 3-4, about 58-60 rebel MLAs, led by expelled leader Ritabrata Banerjee, wrote to the Assembly Speaker saying they were the real TMC legislative party. The ...