TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, who earlier resigned from all party posts, wrote a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla accusing fellow TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee of "repeated verbal abuse". "This mysogeny [misogyny] has been against many lady members and needs to be punished," she wrote. TMC had replaced Dastidar with Banerjee as its chief whip in Lok Sabha.