Kolkata: Upset with her party’s poor show in the Lok
Sabha election, Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Saturday
ordered a major reshuffle in the most of the districts where the BJP
candidates won. These districts include Jhargram in the Jangalmahal
belt, North and South Dinajpur and Malda in North Bengal. In many of
them, the Trinamul candidates who lost in the LS polls were given top
posts in the party organisation at the district level.
After chairing the emergency review meeting with the Trinamul
candidates, both winners and losers, at her residence on Harish
Chatterjee Street in Kalighat, Ms Banerjee said, “We have changed our
district president in Jhargram. Birbaha Soren Tudu fought well. He has
been given the post. In South Dinajpur, Arpita Ghosh has been made the
district presidents. In North Dinajpur Kanhaiyalal, Agarwal who lost was
made the district president.”
“In Hooghly Ratna De Nag a very good candidate has been made
chairman. Along with her three convenors have been made. They are Dilip
Yadav Asima Patra and Prabir Ghoshal. We have divided Bankura into two
subdivisions. While Subhasish Batabyal has been appointed as the
district president, Shyamal Santra has been made the president of the
Bishnupur parliamentary constituency,” she added.
In Murshidabad, Subrata Saha was appointed as the district chairman
while MP Abu Taher became the president. Trinamul candidate Bijoy Burman
who also lost the election in Jalpaiguri was assigned the charge of
Siliguri Jalapaiguri Development Authority. Trinamul minister Goutam Deb
who was in charge of the North Bengal Development committee has been
replaced by Amar Singh Rai.
“At Ranaghat Shankar Singh has become the president. Krishnanagar has
also been divided into two subdivisions. Its parliamentary constituency
wise chairman post has been to Mohua Moitra. Jiten Tiwari has been made
the chairman of Asansol Lok Sabha seat in Burdwan West. In Malda Mausam
Benazir Noor has been made district president while Moazzem Hossain has
been appointed as the chairman.”
Another minister Suvendu Adhikari has been entrusted for looking
after the Jangalmahal, Murshidabad and North and South Dinajpur while
his cabinet colleague Aroop Biswas will be in charge of entire North
Bengal.
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