tmc: Abhishek Banerjee reappointed as TMC national general secretary

TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Friday fashioned a brand new officer bearers’ committee, reappointing her nephew Abhishek Banerjee because the occasion’s nationwide normal secretary and veteran chief Yashwant Sinha as its vice-president.

Senior TMC leaders Subrata Bakshi and Chandrima Bhattacharya, too, have additionally been given the submit of nationwide vice-presidents.

Amongst others, TMC minister Aroop Biswas has been made the treasurer, and Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim the in-charge of coordination.

Banerjee had final week dissolved the erstwhile nationwide workplace bearers’ committee and the portfolios that got here with it, amid a rising inner strife between the previous guard and the younger leaders. She then fashioned a 20-member working committee, full of occasion veterans.

In the meantime, Abhishek’s reappointment was seen by political observers as a affirmation that he was the heir-apparent within the occasion.

The TMC boss additionally appeared to have mollified old-timers by giving them plum posts within the organisation, thus stifling the rising clamour for ‘one occasion, one submit’ by a number of the the youthful leaders within the occasion.