Trinamool Rebel MPs Form New Party to Avoid Anti-Defection Law

The biggest news coming out of West Bengal politics and the Parliament of the country is that the rebel MPs of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) have come up with a unique and big way to avoid losing their MP under the anti-defection law. These rebel MPs have not only taken over a small and anonymous political party, the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI), but have also taken over the entire party. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, an old and very close associate of Mamata Banerjee, has been elected as the national president of this new party (NCPI).