Kolkata, Aug. 4 -- In a major political development, Trinamool Congress' chief whip in Parliament, Kalyan Banerjee, resigned immediately after the party's All India general secretary, Abhishek Banerjee, was named as the party's leader in the Lok Sabha, replacing the ailing Sudip Bandopadhyay.
Senior MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar has been named as the next chief whip of the party.
The move came just hours after a virtual meeting of TMC MPs, chaired by party supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, where she reportedly expressed her displeasure over poor coordination within the party's parliamentary wing.
"I convened a virtual meeting today with all AITC official MPs from both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. Given that our Lok Sab...