Opposition protests invite to TMC rebels to all-party meeting
Opposition parties staged a walkout from the all-party meeting to protest the government's invite to a breakaway faction of the Trinamool Congress.
The breakaway faction of 20 MPs has approached Speaker Om Birla for recognition of their merger with the Nationalist Citizens Party of India and been allotted separate seats in Lok Sabha.
Parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju defended the invite, saying the government must invite every group.
Mahua Moitra, siding with Mamata Banerjee's TMC, called the 20 MPs 'traitors' and demanded their disqualification.
Sudip Bandyopadhyay, leader of the breakaway faction, retorted that the TMC faction with only eight MPs no longer deserves front row seating in the House.
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