{"id":18919,"date":"2026-06-09T14:06:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/could-have-been-murdered-by-contract-killers-if-ex-tmc-mp-sukhendu-sekhar-rays-big-claim-after-quitting-mamatas-party-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T14:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:36:35","slug":"could-have-been-murdered-by-contract-killers-if-ex-tmc-mp-sukhendu-sekhar-rays-big-claim-after-quitting-mamatas-party-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/could-have-been-murdered-by-contract-killers-if-ex-tmc-mp-sukhendu-sekhar-rays-big-claim-after-quitting-mamatas-party-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Could have been murdered by contract killers if &#8230;&#8217;: Ex-TMC MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray&#8217;s big claim after quitting Mamata&#8217;s party | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131604892,imgsize-820003,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/-.jpg\" alt=\"'Could have been murdered by contract killers if ...': Ex-TMC MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray's big claim after quitting Mamata's party\" title=\"Ex-TMC MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray (File photo)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Ex-TMC MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray (File photo)\">Ex-TMC MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray (File photo)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Days after exiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/trinamool-congress\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Trinamool Congress<\/a>, Sukhendu Sekhar Ray on Monday made explosive claims about the Mamata Banerjee-led party and her previous government in West Bengal. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>The former TMC leader likened his former party to a &#8220;party of thieves, rapists&#8221; and made the startling claim that he could have been &#8220;murdered by contract killers&#8221; had he quit during the RG Kar hospital row.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>His remarks come at a time when the Mamata Banerjee-led party, after ruling West Bengal for 15 years, is grappling with a crushing electoral defeat and a growing rebellion within its ranks, both in the assembly and Parliament.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>Speaking to news agency PTI, Ray said, &#8220;A party of thieves, rapists&#8230; RG Kar incident helped me make up my mind. Had I quit then, could have been murdered by contract killers.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>Recalling the RG Kar episode, Sukhendu Sekhar Ray said, &#8220;When the RG Kar incident happened, people came out onto the streets. <!-- -->I had never seen anything like this in my political career, and I spoke up about it. I said that everyone involved should be hanged, I also put out a tweet and sat on a protest&#8230; I was summoned for my tweet.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>The Mamata Banerjee-led party is facing its biggest rupture since its founding in 1998, with a sizeable faction openly rebelling against the leadership. As the internal revolt deepens, the Trinamool Congress appears headed for a major split, with the breakaway camp showing signs of moving closer to the ruling NDA.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/could-have-been-murdered-by-contract-killers-if-ex-tmc-mp-sukhendu-sekhar-rays-big-claim-after-quitting-mamatas-party\/articleshow\/131604827.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-TMC MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray (File photo) NEW DELHI: Days after exiting the Trinamool Congress, Sukhendu Sekhar Ray on Monday made explosive claims about the Mamata Banerjee-led party and her previous government in West Bengal. The former TMC leader likened his former party to a &#8220;party of thieves, rapists&#8221; and made the startling claim that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}