Kolkata/IBNS, April 8 -- Trinamool MP Kalyan Banerjee has hit out at a female party colleague whom he called "rude" and "uncivilised" amid apparent rifts within Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress ahead of next year's high-stakes Assembly election.

The TMC MP also slammed senior Trinamool leader Saugata Roy after he said that it was a matter of "shame" to have WhatsApp chats from the party's MPs group leaked by the BJP.

Kalyan Banerjee countered the criticism by referring to the 2014 'Narada sting op', in which politicians, including Roy, were recorded allegedly taking bribes.

According to Banerjee, he had been told 27 MPs (but not who) would sign and deliver the memorandum.

"Next morning, as I reached the EC office, a female MP questi...