No compromise with indiscipline, anti-party activities: Mamata

Virtually defending her cracking the whip to quell rebellion and suspending Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today said she would not make any compromise with indiscipline or anti-party activities.
"The party is rough and tough on this (indiscipline). There is no question to compromise with anti-party activities, indiscipline or any attempt to form another party," Banerjee said at the TMC's general council meeting held at the Netaji Indoor Stadium here today.
"No one should cross the Lakshman Rekha in this regard," she said in her speech stressing on maintaining party discipline "at any cost".
Without naming Ghosh, whom she had herself nominated to contest the Rajya Sabha polls in 2012 or another dissident party MP Somen Mitra and his wife Sikha (who too has been suspended), Banerjee asked TMC members to foil even minimum efforts to break party discipline.

She said TMC would not accept if anybody after winning on its symbol start acting bigger than the party.
"It is for the people to decide who is bigger... The party or the individual," she said, further warning her leaders of "stern action" in case of complaints of corruption, nepotism and infighting.
Ghosh, whose name cropped up for his alleged links in the Saradha ponzi scam, was suspended on September 28. Party MPs Tapas Pal and Satabdi Roy, who had vented their ire at a programme where Ghosh made the alleged anti-party comments, were spared after they apologised. All the three MPs had been show caused.

Incidentally, both Pal and Roy were present at today's meeting.