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Barely a week aft Mamata Banerjee reappointed lawmaker Saayoni Ghosh arsenic the TMC's younker helping president arsenic portion of a large structural overhaul to tighten her grip implicit the organisation that present faces an existential crisis, the enactment main has removed the Jadavpur MP from the presumption and replaced her with Arnab Banerjee, a younker leader, enactment sources said.
The enactment besides replaced connected Saturday (June 13, 2026) Kolkata Dakshin MP Mala Roy with Alifa Ahmed, TMC MLA from Kaliganj successful Nadia district, arsenic the president of its women's wing, the Trinamool Mahila Congress, they added.
Both Ms. Ghosh and Ms. Roy are perceived to person joined the set of TMC's rebel MPs successful Lok Sabha amid a large turmoil presently rocking the party, with the dissidents stating they volition conscionable Speaker Om Birla connected Monday (June 15, 2026) with a missive to question designation arsenic the "real TMC", pursuing the party's electoral drubbing successful the 2026 West Bengal Assembly polls.
With elder MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay allegedly also joining the rebel camp connected Saturday (June 13, 2026), leaders of the breakaway faction claimed that 20 of the party's 28 Lok Sabha members were already signatories to the said letter, including Ms. Ghosh and Ms. Roy.
Dissident MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar has declared that the bloc, erstwhile recognised, would connection enactment to the BJP-led NDA successful Parliament.
Following a mutiny by the party's legislators successful the State assembly, Ms. Banerjee had reconstituted the TMC's organisational committee connected June 5 -- aft dissolving each its erstwhile committees and frontal organisations crossed Bengal -- packing the caller enactment operation with enactment loyalists and old-timers successful an evident bid to revitalise the embattled party, wherever she, ironically, named some Ms. Ghosh and Ms. Roy for their respective posts.
She had reappointed the party's Diamond Harbour MP and her nephew, Abhishek Banerjee, arsenic its nationalist wide secretary.
"These replacement decisions were already taken astatine a enactment gathering held 3 days ago," a elder Rajya Sabha MP of the TMC said, asking not to beryllium named.
"Mamata didi doodh kola diye shaap pushechhilo (Mamata didi had nurtured radical with beverage and honey, but they turned retired to beryllium snakes)," helium added, referring to each 20 dissenting enactment MPs successful the Lok Sabha.
In a related development, TMC's Beleghata MP Kunal Ghosh was named the president of the party's North Kolkata organisational district. Sudip Bandyopadhyay earlier held the position.
"In the aftermath of the caller developments, the enactment has asked maine to enarthrosis responsibilities for the post," Mr. Ghosh told reporters.
Meanwhile, seasoned parliamentarian Saugata Roy was named the main advisor of the TMC's Lok Sabha wing, which presently has 8 MPs inactive owing allegiance to Mamata Banerjee.
