Soon after roaring back to power for the third time in a row the Trinamool Congress has set out to deal rather strongly with the defectors, sources have said.
In a two-pronged strategy while ‘files’ are being prepared for some corrupt “weather birds who made money and then left at their convenience,” the “opportunist MPs” who left the party legal steps are being taken, sources said. According to insiders TMC Lok Sabha Leader Sudip Bandopadhyay has spoken to Speaker Om Birla seeking disqualification of MPs Sisir Adhikari and Sunil Mondal who deserted the party days before the Assembly elections. He has sought their disqualification under anti-defection laws. Adhikari a former Union Minister and a powerful East Mindapore satrap is the father of Bengal Opposition Leader Suvendu Adhikari who too defected to the BJP months before the State polls.
Bandopadhyay earlier wrote to the Speaker on May 17 seeking the “disqualification of Sisir Kumar Adhikari as a member of the Lok Sabha, as per Rule 6 of the Members of Lok Sabha (disqualification on grounds of defection) Rules, 1985.”