Kolkata: In a sudden development, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who was likely to be inducted in the Union Cabinet, has cancelled her trip to New Delhi on May 24 morning and summoned an emergency working committee meeting of the party to decide "future course of action".

The decision came in the wake of reports from New Delhi that senior party colleague Sudip Bandyopadhyay was being considered for induction in the Union Cabinet without consulting the party, Mukul Roy, Trinamool Congress general secretary and close confidante of Banerjee said.

The working committee is scheduled to meet at 9.00 am (IST).

Roy said the move to induct Bandyopadhyay in the Cabinet without consulting the party amounts to "direct attempt to cause defection in Trinamool Congress".

Banerjee had earlier expressed her reservation about inclusion of Bandyopadhyay in the Cabinet and had rather proposed the name of party MP Akber Ali Khandokar.

Bandyopadhyay had been camping in New Delhi for the last few days and had even met Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani a couple of days back.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Venkaiah Naidu had called up Banerjee late on May 23 evening and asked her to rush to New Delhi to participate in the Cabinet reshuffle exercise.

PTI