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Kolkata: The Election Commission of India has asked Trinamool Congress founder Mamata Banerjee and party MLA Ritabrata Banerjee to submit replies and supporting documents on contesting claims that they are the ‘real’ TMC  by 5.30 pm on July 6.

The ‘split’ in the TMC took place shortly after the party lost power to the Bharatiya Janata Party in the April assembly polls this year.

Ritabrata Banerjee, a former Communist Party of India (Marxist) MP, turned TMC MP who was newly elected as MLA from the party, lay claim to the legislative identity........

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