TMC warns student wing to stay away from factionalism

The Trinamool Congress today warned its student wing, Trinamool Chatra Parishad, to desist from factionalism, or else those indulging in it would be removed from party membership.

The warning came in the wake of violence and clashes in college campuses in which the involvement of TMCP has come up.

"These incidents are creating a bad image for the party. Despite repeated warning, these incidents keep happening. We have decided therefore that from next time if such incidents happen, we will take strict action and either suspend or remove such TMCP activists from the party," a senior TMC leader said.

TMC state president Jaya Dutta also spoke in the same vein, saying that all college units of the TMCP had been asked to stay away from bringing outsiders in matters related to colleges.

"We will not tolerate any such incident which maligns the image of our party," Dutta told

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