A Priyanka Gandhi-Kalyan Banerjee banter, and a Congress-TMC throwback

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra met Kalyan Banerjee near Makar Dwar in Parliament on Thursday. PTI 4 min readNew DelhiJul 30, 2026 04:23 PM IST First published on: Jul 30, 2026 at 04:18 PM IST A banter between senior Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee in the Parliament complex on Thursday captured how political necessities have led to breakaways and reunions. Banerjee, MP from West Bengal’s Sreerampur and one of the eight Trinamool Lok Sabha members still backing party chief Mamata Banerjee, was staging a protest at Parliament with a poster worn around his neck. On the poster were photographs of 20 rebel MPs, who left the Trinamool Congress, joined the little-known Nationalist Citizens Party of India and sided with the BJP-led NDA. The poster read, “Lok S