Live: TMC rebellion, CID searches pile pressure on Mamata Banerjee

TMC Crisis Live Updates: Troubles continue to mount for Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee. Amid a raging rebellion within the party, the West Bengal CID on Tuesday conducted simultaneous searches at the TMC's central office at her Kalighat residence and at national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee's Camac Street office in Kolkata, as part of its probe into alleged forged signatures of TMC MLAs that triggered the party split. The agency officers maintained that the raids were held to dredge out the original copy of TMC's meeting resolution book and attendance sheet containing signatures of 70 MLAs present at the May 6 meeting held the party office adjacent to former chief minister Mamata Banerjee's residence. Both Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek were out of town, at the national capital for their scheduled meetings with leaders of the opposition INDIA bloc. Follow this space for all the live updates

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