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Back to where it began? TMC crisis triggers talk of merger with Congress, the party Mamata had left in 90s
As Trinamool Congress splinters in the aftermath of its 2026 defeat in West Bengal, former chief minister and party supremo Mamata Banerjee faces a possibility that would have seemed unlikely even six months ago: returning to the Congress—the very party she’d left to build her political empire. She won that contest, in one of the first signals that Banerjee was not a typical politician. Banerjee became chief minister — the first woman to hold the state’s top post.
