Ritabrata camp of Trinamool Congress gets time till July 10 to submit response to EC notice
The Election Commission (EC) is understood to have given an extension till Friday (July 10, 2026) to the Ritabrata Banerjee faction of the Trinamool Congress
The Election Commission (EC) is understood to have given an extension till Friday (July 10, 2026) to the Ritabrata Banerjee faction of the Trinamool Congress for submitting a response to notices issued by the Commission regarding claims made by them on organisational elections and authorised signatories of the party. The EC had last week written to both factions of the Trinamool Congress, led by former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Uluberia Purba MLA Ritabrata Banerjee, respectively, seeking responses regarding “claims and counterclaims” made by them and asked them to submit the same by 5.:30 p.m. on Monday (July 6, 2026).
While the Mamata Banerjee-led group of the All India Trinamool Congress submitted its response rejecting the rival group’s claim over the party on Monday, the Ritabrata Banerjee sent a legal representative to the Commission seeking more time. EC sources told The Hindu that they have been given an extension till Friday this week. Last week, a full Bench of the poll body met the rebel faction of the party led by Ritabrata Banerjee. The Mamata Banerjee side of the party had, however, questioned the EC’s decision to grant an audience to the rebel faction, alleging that the meeting violated the poll body’s own procedures of granting appointments to only authorised signatories of a recognised political party.
In their response submitted on Monday, the Mamata Banerjee-led group of the Trinamool Congress rejected the rival group’s claim over the party, underlining that the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Ritabrata Banerjee, who is leading the other faction,
was not even a member of the party committee at the time of the last round of organisational elections in 2022. Supporters of Mamata Banerjee asserted that the All India Trinamool Congress organisational committees remain valid till 2027 under the party constitution.
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