TMC Exodus Continues: Who's Backing Didi?

Are there now cracks within the Trinamool "rebel" camp? A letter reportedly with signatures of 19 Trinamool Congress MPs has been submitted to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla stating that the group wants to distance itself from the party and wishes to align with the ruling NDA in Parliament.

But Trinamool Congress MP Pratima Mandal, whose name was reportedly in the list of the defecting MPs submitted by the camp led Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, has denied being part of the group. Calling the reports of her being in the rebel camp "completely false", Mandal said that she is in Kolkata and has not met anyone in Delhi.