Kolkata:Rebel Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar on June 16 said the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) has agreed to accept the joining of all the dissident Lok Sabha members of her party, whose numbers are likely to go up to 22 from the present 20.

Dastidar also said that the rebel MPs have no connection with the dissident TMC MLAs, who have formed a separate group in the West Bengal assembly, recognised by Speaker Rathindra Bose.

Asked about the next move of the rebel TMC MPs, the lawmaker from Bengal's Barasat said first they want to settle down while trying to merge into another party.

"Acceptance has already come to us. They (NCPI) are happy to take us. We will work together with the NDA under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah," Dastidar told reporters at the Parliament House complex, New Delhi.

Asked about her faction's strength, she said, "Currently we are 20 (MPs). The numbers may go up to 22."

Altogether, 28 MPs got elected to the Lok Sabha on TMC tickets in the 2024 general elections.