The All India Trinamool Congress (TMC), West Bengal’s ruling party, is unraveling at a perilous moment. A recent public spat among its MPs—Kalyan Banerjee targeting Mahua Moitra, Kirti Azad, and Saugata Roy—has laid bare deep-seated divisions.

The clash, which erupted at the Election Commission office and spilled into a party WhatsApp group, is now before Mamata Banerjee. With the Bengal Assembly election less than a year away, this infighting could not have come at a worse time for a party already battered by controversies like the teachers’ recruitment scam. The TMC is increasingly a house divided, driven by unchecked personal ambitions from booth workers to MPs. Once, Mamata Banerjee’s iron grip kept the party in line.

Leaders like Subrata Bakshi, Mukul Roy, and Partha Chatterjee wielded influence but never challenged her supremacy. That unity has frayed. Abhishek Banerjee, Mamata’s nephew and a rising power center, has shifted the dynamic. Moitra and Azad, seen as his........

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