Who Will Be Mamata Banerjee’s Successor? TMC Supremo Says: ‘Choice To Be Made By…’ – News18
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Mamata Banerjee clarified that the TMC stands as a disciplined occasion the place nobody can dictate phrases or dominate over others.
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee along with her nephew and TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee | File Photograph/PTI
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee stated on Friday that the choice on her potential successor because the chief of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) can be made collectively by the occasion and never her alone.
The remarks come amid the continuing inner energy wrestle throughout the TMC occasion in West Bengal between the veteran leaders and youthful factions.
In an unique interview with News18 Bangla, Mamata Banerjee dismissed the rumours round her dominance and stated, “I’m not the occasion, we’re the occasion. It’s a collective household, and selections will likely be made collectively.”
Banerjee clarified that the TMC stands as a disciplined occasion the place nobody can dictate phrases or dominate over others. “The occasion will resolve what’s finest for the folks. We have now MLAs, MPs, sales space staff, this can be a joint effort,” she stated.
Sustaining a balanced strategy to the continuing debate about giving extra probabilities to the youthful technology, Banerjee stated, “Everybody (previous and new technology leaders) is necessary. Right this moment’s newcomer will likely be tomorrow’s veteran.”
Though the TMC has not but introduced any successor for Banerjee, the remarks got here amid an ongoing debate over the previous guards, thought of loyal to Mamata Banerjee, versus the next-generation leaders, thought of near Abhishek Banerjee.
Abhishek Banerjee, the TMC’s nationwide basic secretary and nephew of Mamata Banerjee, is taken into account to be extra well-known than another occasion chief among the many youth of Bengal. He’s usually criticised as effectively by the previous guards for dictating phrases throughout the occasion, in accordance with stories.
Banerjee didn’t mince phrases when addressing the position of political consultants, taking an oblique jibe at I-PAC, which has been working as TMC’s political guide since 2019.
“Some strategists make surveys sitting at residence and alter them later. They will prepare issues however not convey voters. It’s the sales space staff who know the villages and individuals who truly win elections,” she remarked, including, “They’re like artisans who do their work in alternate for cash. However elections aren’t received by them.”
The following election for the West Bengal Legislative Meeting is anticipated to be held in March–April 2026 to elect all 294 members. In recent times, the state has seen the rise of BJP as the important thing opposition occasion.
