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Mamata-led Trinamool submits affidavits to EC, claims support of 38 MLAs and 17 MPs

Kolkata, Nov 15 (UNI) In a move to establish its claim as the “real Trinamool Congress”, the Mamata Banerjee-led faction on Sunday submitted a fresh set of affidavits to the Election Commission of India (ECI), days after the Ritabrata Banerjee-led Democratic Trinamool submitted its documents to the poll panel.
The Mamata-led faction submitted two truckloads of documents at the Election Commission's headquarters in New Delhi.
The affidavits carry the signatures of party supremo Mamata Banerjee, 17 MPs from both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, and 38 MLAs.
Of the legislators who have signed the affidavits, 32 are from West Bengal, five from Meghalaya and one from Assam.
Three Trinamool MPs — Kalyan Banerjee, Dola Sen and Derek O'Brien — submitted the documents at the Election Commission's office on Sunday.
Emerging from the office, Kalyan said another truck carrying documents would reach Delhi shortly.
"We have submitted the original affidavits. Both hard copies and soft copies of the affidavits have been submitted. We will make all these documents public. At the appropriate time, we will also send copies of the affidavits to Ritabrata Banerjee or his lawyer," the Srerampore MP said.
Taking a swipe at chief minister Suvendu Adhikari and the Democratic Trinamool faction, Kalyan said, "We will give them (Democratic Trinamool) copies of the affidavits as well. Although, after this, Suvendu's police and his associates will harass our people and arrest them, we are not afraid of that."
Kalyan said eight Lok Sabha MPs and nine Rajya Sabha MPs had signed the affidavits.
None of the MPs who joined the newly formed NCPI had signed the documents, he claimed.
Following the political change in the state, four of the Trinamool's 13 Rajya Sabha MPs — Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Sushmita Dev, Prakash Chik Baraik and Koel Mallick — resigned from the party and joined the BJP before returning to the Upper House.
Meanwhile, 20 of the party's 28 Lok Sabha MPs joined the NCPI.
Kalyan also claimed that seven of the 14 founding members of the Trinamool Congress had died, while six of the remaining seven had signed affidavits in support of the Mamata-led faction.
Members of the party's national working committee had also signed the documents, he added.
The submission of 38 MLAs' affidavits assumes significance against the backdrop of Ritabrata's earlier claim that 58 legislators supported his faction when he was elected Leader of the Opposition.
He subsequently claimed that the number had risen to 65.
The latest claim by Kalyan that 32 West Bengal MLAs had signed affidavits in support of Mamata's faction indicates that several legislators who had earlier been counted among Ritabrata's supporters may have backed the Kalighat camp.
The Democratic Trinamool faction had submitted its documents to the Election Commission on November 5, transporting them in several trucks.
However, the Mamata-led faction claimed that it had not yet received copies of those documents.
The Kalighat camp had earlier accused the Ritabrata faction of preparing affidavits with the assistance of the police and administration.
Responding to Sunday's submission by the Mamata-led faction, Democratic Trinamool MLA Akhruzzaman claimed that his party had submitted affidavits bearing the signatures of more than 12 lakh party workers, leaders and supporters.
"More MLAs have signed affidavits in our support than the number of legislators supporting Leader of the Opposition Ritabrata. How many signatures they have submitted will become clear during the hearing before the Election Commission. We are confident that the Jora Phool symbol and the Trinamool name will remain with us," he said.
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