TMC appoints Mamata’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee as national general secretary

Banerjee will be replacing Subrata Bakshi as the national general secretary, while actor-turned-TMC leader Sayoni Ghosh will take his place as the youth wing president.

File image of Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee (right) and his aunt, CM Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal | Photo: ANI

Kolkata: TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Saturday elevated MP Abhishek Banerjee as the party’s all India general secretary, a senior leader here said.

Addressing a press meet, TMC leader Partha Chatterjee also said that the working committee has decided that one person will be allowed to hold just one post in the party, and the core committee has duly given its approval.

“Our party chief Mamata Banerjee has nominated MP Abhishek Banerjee as the all India general secretary of the TMC,” Chatterjee said, following two crucial meetings earlier in the day.

Abhishek, nephew of the party supremo, will be replacing Subrata Bakshi as the national general secretary, while actor-turned-TMC leader Sayoni Ghosh has been made the youth wing president – a post earlier held by the MP.

Chatterjee further stated that no discussion was held on turncoats, who had quit the TMC to join the BJP ahead of the assembly polls, and were now willing to return to the party fold.