Archive · 30 Jul 2026
Priyanka Gandhi Confronts Trinamool MP Over '20 Traitors' Poster
Priyanka Gandhi, a leader of the Congress party, met with a Trinamool MP named Kalyan Banerjee at the Parliament House.
She asked him to show a poster that called 20 MPs traitors.
Kalyan Banerjee said the poster was about MPs who left Trinamool and joined another party.
He also said a petition was filed to treat them as defectors.
Priyanka Gandhi talked about how some MPs moved between parties.
The meeting also had the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other ministers.
The story shows how political parties in India sometimes fight over who belongs where.
It also shows that politicians can change parties and that this can cause big arguments.
Priyanka Gandhi asked Kalyan Banerjee to show a poster of '20 traitors' at Parliament.
Kalyan Banerjee, a former Congress member, is part of a group of 20 Trinamool MPs who joined the NCPI and align with the NDA.
A meeting of the NDA parliamentary party, attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, included the rebel MPs.
Banerjee claimed the rebel MPs should be treated as defectors and a petition has been filed, but nothing has happened.
Gandhi highlighted that some MPs moved from Congress to Trinamool to BJP, while Banerjee called them traitors.
- Who
- Priyanka Gandhi, Kalyan Banerjee, other Trinamool MPs, Narendra Modi
- What
- Confrontation over a poster labeling 20 MPs as traitors and discussion of their defection
- When
- Tuesday, during an NDA parliamentary party meeting
- Where
- Parliament House complex, India
- Why
- To address the defection of Trinamool MPs to the NDA and political tensions
- Event
- Confrontation over '20 traitors' poster
- Key Figures
- Priyanka Gandhi, Kalyan Banerjee, Narendra Modi
- Defection Group
- 20 Trinamool MPs joined NCPI
- Meeting
- NDA parliamentary party meeting at Parliament House
- Defection Petition
- Filed, pending action