Mamata likely to name AITC’s office bearers of national working committee

Kolkata  : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is expected to announce the names of the All India Trinamool Congress’ office bearers of the national working committee at a meeting to preside by her on Friday afternoon, party sources said. Banerjee, who is also the chairperson of the AITC, on Saturday last, barring her post, had dissolved the previous committee and named a 20-member new national working committee, besides her and nephew Abhishek Banerjee, the MP from Diamond Harbour in South 24 Parganas. The meeting is scheduled to be held at her Kalighat residence office at 3 pm where all the new committee members are expected to attend where the AITC supremo may name the officer bearers of the party’s national working committee. The new national working committee includes Amit Mitra, 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. Sources said the chairperson is also expected to name three Mayoral posts of Bidhannagar, Chandranagar and Asansol, where the TMC swept back to victory in the recently held civic bodies polls. Former minister Gautam Deb was also named Mayor by Banerjee of Siliguri, where the TMC received power from the Left Front.