Amid a growing rift between TMC’s old-timers and Gen Next, Mamata Banerjee on February 12 dissolved the party’s national office bearers’ committee and formed a 20-member working committee packed with party veterans.
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew and Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee retained his position as national general secretary of the party and three vice presidents have also been appointed.
Amid a growing rift between TMC’s old-timers and Gen Next, Mamata Banerjee on February 12 dissolved the party’s national office bearers’ committee and formed a 20-member working committee packed with party veterans.
Alongside national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, three national vice presidents - Yashwant Sinha, Subrata Bakshi, Chandrima Bhattacharya - have also been appointed. Yashwant Sinha and Amit Mitra have been given the responsibility to chalk out the economic policy as well.
Sukhendu Sekhar Roy will be the spokesperson for Rajya Sabha and Kakoli Ghoshdastidar for Lok Sabha. Mahua Moitro, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy and Kakoli Ghoshdastidar have been appointed as National spokesperson.
Susmita Dev will look after North East.
The national general secretary post of TMC was also dissolved along with the previous working committee by Banerjee. TMC supremo Mamata had appointed her nephew Abhishek as the national general secretary of the party after TMC registered a thumping victory over BJP in the West Bengal election of 2021.
The TMC's national working committee was convened on Friday to decide on the mayors of the three municipal corporations -- Chandernagore, Bidhannagar and Asansol -- it won this week. Names for the new office bearers committee were also decided upon.
Meanwhile, the TMC is mulling action against dissidents who have filed nominations as independents to the upcoming civic polls to 108 municipalities in West Bengal.
It reissued on Thursday its two-day ultimatum to the dissidents to withdraw their nomination or face action.
