TMC chief Mamata Banerjee has made significant changes within the party, removing Saayoni Ghosh as youth wing president and Mala Roy as women's wing president. These moves occur amid reports of several TMC MPs forming a breakaway faction.
The reshuffling of key positions within the TMC's youth and women's wings signals internal party challenges and potential factionalism, indicating a struggle for control and influence following recent electoral setbacks.
TMC chief Mamata Banerjee has initiated significant changes within the party's youth and women's wings, removing Saayoni Ghosh as the president of the youth wing and Mala Roy from the same position in the women's wing. Arnab Banerjee has been appointed as the new youth wing president, while Alifa Ahmed will now lead the women's wing.
These personnel shifts come in the wake of internal turmoil within the Trinamool Congress, with reports suggesting that several TMC Members of Parliament are forming a breakaway faction. This development follows a recent electoral drubbing in the West Bengal Assembly polls and a previous reconstitution of the party's organisational committee on June 5, where both Ghosh and Roy had initially been named to their respective posts.
Sources within the party indicated that these replacement decisions were finalized in a meeting held three days prior. A senior Rajya Sabha MP described the situation as "Mamata didi doodh kola diye shaap pushechhilo" (Mamata didi had nurtured people with milk and honey, but they turned out to be snakes), referring to the dissenting MPs.
In related developments, Kunal Ghosh was appointed president of the party's North Kolkata organisational district, a position previously held by Sudip Bandyopadhyay. Veteran parliamentarian Saugata Roy has been named the chief advisor of the TMC's Lok Sabha wing.