The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Saturday appointed MP Abhishek Banerjee as the party’s national general secretary. Lok Sabha MP from Diamond Harbour, Abhishek Banerjee is the nephew of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee.The organisational meeting of TMC is underway where Mamata Banerjee is having her first virtual meeting with all the MLAs after the Assembly Polls result was declared on May 2. Poll strategist Prashant Kishor is also present in the meeting. During this meeting, the TMC endorsed the “one person one post” strategy.
Among many instructions, the party has asked its leaders to ‘visibly change their lifestyle’, which includes luxury cars, giving contractual jobs to relatives, expensive gadgets, no to violence and hobnobbing with the district administration. Mamata also stressed old and young leaders to work untidily to steer the party close to the ‘heart of the people’. In the context of ‘ghar wapsi’ of those who quit TMC and joined BJP before the Assembly Polls, TMC leader Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, “Discussion is going on and final decision on this matter will be taken soon.”
