Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday set up a new 20-member national working committee of the party and dissolved the previous one formed in 2017, dropping a few prominent names.
On February 2, Banerjee was re-elected as the party’s chairperson. Till the time she decides upon the new office bearers of the national working committee, she will be the only office bearer at the national level.
“After being re-elected as the chairperson of the party, Banerjee had named six party leaders who were taking the decisions to run the party. On Saturday, Banerjee met the leaders and the new committee was formed. The office bearers will be named by Banerjee later,” said Partha Chatterjee, minister and the state secretary general of TMC.
The new national working committee includes Amit Mitra, Abhishek Banerjee, Anubrata Mondol, Arup Biswas, Asima Patra, Bulu Chik Baraik, Chandrima Bhattacharya, Subrata Bakshi, Partha Chatterjee, Firhad Hakim, Goutam Deb, Jyotipriyo Mullick, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Rajesh Tripathi, Sovandeb Chattopadhyay, Sudip Banerjee, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Moloy Ghatak and Yashwant Sinha.
