Don't call yourself TMC: Mahua Moitra rips into 'completely useless' rebel MLAs

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• As the Trinamool Congress plunged into its biggest internal crisis since its formation nearly three decades ago, party MP Mahua Moitra launched a blistering attack on the rebel MLAs who wrested control of the legislature wing, calling them "completely useless" leaders who had survived solely on Mamata Banerjee's charisma and no longer had the stomach to fight the BJP from the opposition benches.
• In an exclusive interaction with India Today, Moitra accused the BJP of engineering the split through coercion and intimidation, alleging that the rebel legislators were pressured into switching camps with threats of arrests and central agency action.
• She also claimed the dissidents, led by expelled MLA Ritabrata Banerjee, were unwilling to remain in the opposition after years in power and were instead choosing the "safe" route.
• "We have had these people who are completely useless, who have been in the party, riding off of...