For 28 years, Trinamool Congress was synonymous with Mamata Banerjee. His party, his command, his word.
That certainty ended on June 3, when, for the first time since Mamata founded the TMC in 1998, a large group of elected Trinamool MLAs openly broke with the leadership – they did not leave the party; Instead, he claimed to be its “real” voice in the House.