New Delhi: Infighting within West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress party came to the forefront on Tuesday, after a video of an alleged verbal spat between party MPs and screenshots of heated exchanges went viral.
BJP’s IT cell chief Amit Malviya shared the screenshots of the heated exchanges during the day. The BJP leader claimed the conversations were exchanged between TMC MPs Kalyan Banerjee and Kirti Azad.
Odisha Bytes, however, could not independently verify the authenticity of the video or screenshots circulating on social media.
According to Malviya, the war of words on WhatsApp was triggered by a previous public spat at the Election Commission headquarters between the two TMC MPs. One of these MPs is a woman.
The MPs had reportedly gone there to submit a party memorandum. However, the situation ended in a confrontation. According to reports, Banerjee admitted that an altercation did take place, but he blamed the woman MP.
“I have been in politics for the last 40 years. This woman MP was asking the security personnel outside the EC office to arrest me. Who are they to send me to jail? She hurled abuses towards me. It is I who fight in Parliament; I am not someone who is only obsessed with a specific industrial house,” he said, as quoted by New Indian Express.
“Just because the woman MP speaks fluent English doesn’t mean she can insult anybody,” he added Banerjee.
