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Today, the Chief Minister's Office in Jaipur hosted a high-level 'Electronics and Semiconductor Sector Dialogue.' Ultimately, Rajasthan is working to align itself with industry leaders in Electronics, System Design, and Manufacturing (ESDM).
Is Mamata Banerjee preparing a final chess move that could completely change the political equation?
There is growing speculation that the camp led by Ritabrata may not have anticipated a strategy of this scale. Reports suggest that Mamata Banerjee could take a step that would ensure dissidents leaving the party get neither the Trinamool Congress name, nor its symbol, nor access to its funds. If this plan is implemented, the rebel faction may be forced to form an entirely new party, while many MPs could find themselves trapped by anti-defection laws.
The discussion currently gaining momentum is the possibility of Mamata Banerjee joining the Congress. However, the speculation goes beyond a simple personal switch. It is being suggested that she could merge the Trinamool Congress with the Congress party.
Such a merger cannot be decided by MPs or MLAs alone. Under the party constitution, the decision would have to be approved by party delegates. Interestingly, the Trinamool constitution, which was modeled on the Congress constitution, reportedly contains provisions for such a merger. If the party delegates estimated to number around a thousand-approve the proposal through a majority vote, all Trinamool elected representatives would automatically be considered Congress representatives.
In the West Bengal Assembly, this would mean that Trinamool's 80 MLAs and Congress's 2 MLAs would together give Congress a strength of 82 members.
Naturally, dissident MPs and MLAs may not accept such a decision. In the Assembly, they could potentially break away because they have the numbers. Two-thirds of 82 is 55, a figure the rebel camp is believed to have. This could allow them to split and form a separate group.
The situation in the Lok Sabha would be very different. If Trinamool's 28 MPs become Congress MPs through a merger, Congress's strength would rise to 127. Two-thirds of that number is 85. Since the dissident MPs would fall far short of that figure, they would be unable to break away without risking disqualification under anti-defection provisions.
At most, the rebels could resign and join hands with dissident MLAs to launch a new party. However, they would lose any claim to the Trinamool name, election symbol, or party funds. The party's assets and resources would effectively move to the Congress after the merger.
In other words, Mamata Banerjee could prevent a party she built from being taken over by others. That possibility is now fueling intense political debate.
The key question is: would such a move be an act of political revenge, a fight for survival, or a strategy to protect her legacy and self-respect?
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Rant against the turncoats all you want, but the sheer speed at which things have unravelled tells you there was/is something intrinsically wrong with the functioning within the party itself.
Other parties have lost elections too but none have collapsed in the manner #TMC has.