Brief by Shorts91 NewsDesk / 02:36pm on 05 Aug 2025,Tuesday Politics
Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee resigned as the party’s chief whip in Lok Sabha following fellow MP Mahua Moitra’s controversial “pig” jibe during a podcast. Moitra, reacting to Banerjee’s comments on her marriage to Pinaki Mishra, said, “You don’t wrestle with a pig because the pig likes it and you get dirty.” Banerjee condemned the remark as dehumanising and abusive, asserting that such language reflects toxic double standards. His resignation was accepted by the party, which appointed Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar as the new chief whip and Satabdi Roy as deputy leader. The episode has triggered a leadership reshuffle and exposed deep fissures within Trinamool’s parliamentary ranks.
