TMC Crisis: How Mamata Could Lose Her Own Party, Explained

A month after losing power to the BJP, Mamata Banerjee faces a revolt inside her own Trinamool Congress.

Expelled MLA Ritabrata Banerjee has been named Leader of Opposition by a breakaway faction claiming to be the 'real TMC'.

Reports say 58-59 of the party's MLAs back the rebels — past the two-thirds bar that defeats anti-defection law.

The trigger was a 'forged signatures' row over Assembly letters, now under CID investigation.

If the split holds, the fight shifts to the Election Commission over who owns the TMC name and symbol.