India, May 19 -- The Centre did not inform or consult the Trinamool Congress before including its Lok Sabha member and former Indian cricketer Yusuf Pathan in the all-party delegation that will visit other nations to explain India's stance on Operation Sindoor, TMC chairperson Mamata Banerjee said on Monday shortly after the party withdrew Pathan from the panel.

"It is not that TMC doesn't want to be in the foreign delegation. Let us be clear on this. Nowadays, the system (in Delhi) is that they (Centre) don't inform the mother party but inform the parliamentary party," the West Bengal chief minister said at the Kolkata airport before leaving for north Bengal.

Banerjee said TMC's Parliament members are not authorised to take a decision ...