Mamata Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress chief and former Chief Minister of West Bengal, has set a 15-day deadline for MPs and MLAs who had left the party to return.
“Many of the MLAs and MPs we helped get elected are traitors; there is no place for them here… We will return (to power). You are the true Trinamool. There was also a message on the countrywide standing of Trinamool Congress. “The INDIA Alliance cannot be strong without the Trinamool Congress.
Therefore, if we are to fight the BJP, strengthen the Trinamool Congress-strengthen us,” she said. As for the MLAs and MPs who left us – if they come back within 15 days, it is fine; otherwise, there will be no place for them here,” she said.
Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress, which dismantled the 35-year-old Left citadel and then ruled Bengal for 15 years, started unravelling after the party’s resounding defeat in the assembly polls held earlier this year.
