Kolkata, June 21 (IANS) The group of 20 rebel Trinamool Congress’s Lok Sabha members, led by two four-time Lok Sabha members, Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Stabdi Roy, who recently joined the virtually non-existent and Tripura-based National Citizens Party of India (NCPI), is considering filing a defamation suit against Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra, over a recent “libellous” social media post by the latter against the rebel MPs.

Recently, a controversy surfaced over a social media post by Mahua Moitra, who is continuing with her allegiance towards former West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee and her nephew, Abhishek Banerjee, who is Trinamool Congress’s general secretary.

In her social media post, she had accused the two rebel Trinamool Congress MPs on social media of leaving the party and joining NSPI in exchange for money.

Moitra claimed that each one took at least Rs 40 crore to join the NCPI.

Recently, several MPs in Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena party in Maharashtra have also rebelled. Rumours are that they are going to leave Thakre and join the opposition Eknath Shinde’s camp. Sanjay Raut, of the Thakre group, recently made a social media post accusing them of betrayal by taking Rs 15 crore.

Sharing the same post, Mahua launched a bombshell against the 20 rebel Trinamool Congress MPs. ” Only Rs 15 cr? Saste mein kyo jaa rahe hai? Believe ours got Rs 4cr up front and Rs 1cr a month for next 36 months of term. …. Honey plus Money,” Moitra wrote in her social media post.

It is learnt that the 20 rebel MPs, who are scattered in different parts of the country now, on Sunday afternoon, had a virtual meeting, where the possibilities of filing a defamation suit against Mahua were discussed.

Virtually confirming the possibility of the defamation suit against Moitra, Stabdi Roy said that they were considering the possibility on this count. “Right now, I can say this much only,” Roy said.

Not just the rebel Trinamool Congress MPs, but also the rebel party legislators in the West Bengal Assembly, have been facing scathing attacks on social media by Mahua Moitra for the last few days.

She has accused the rebel MPs and MLAs of betraying the Trinamool Congress after getting elected as party candidates. She also claimed that these rebel MPs and MLAs should first resign and then speak against the Trinamool Congress leadership.

–IANS

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