What Happened on June 8 On Monday evening, June 8, 2026, veteran TMC leader and Lok Sabha Chief Whip Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar (Barasat MP, in Parliament since 2009) announced that she was forming a separate faction within the Trinamool Congress with the backing of 20 Members of Parliament. "I will form a separate faction of the TMC. I have the backing of 20 MPs, and they are all aligned with me," Dastidar declared at a press conference.