India, Aug. 5 -- The internal rift in the Trinamool Congress (TMC) was out in the open on Monday with MP Kalyan Banerjee resigning from the post of chief whip in the Lok Sabha, a move seemingly triggered by his party colleague Mahua Moitra calling him a "pig".

TMC MP Mahua Moitra, in a podcast with a media house, hit out at Kalyan Banerjee, and called him a "pig" following Banerjee's "anti-woman" remark against her.

Banerjee also accused her of breaking a family (referring to Moitra's recent marriage to divorced BJD ex-MP Pinaki Misra), following an earlier war of words over a rape of a student in a Kolkata law college by a Trinamool Congress functionary.

Banerjee stepped down as the party chief whip in Lok Sabha alleging that he was b...