Watch: Rebel TMC leader Kakoli Dastidar sits in front row with PM at NDA meet

Once an aide to former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, who now leads the TMC's rebel group in the Lok Sabha and has merged with NCPI following the party's rout in Bengal in May, was seen seated in the front row alongside top BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Ministers Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari and JP Nadda, during the NDA Parliamentary meeting, also known as Mangal Milan.