Didi to manage Trinamool’s bickering Hooghly unit

Hooghly/Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is likely to oversee the party’s Hooghly district unit from now in an attempt to stem the slugfest in the run-up to Bengal assembly polls.
Mamata gave a piece of her mind to the bickering district party leaders over phone while Trinamool seniors Subrata Bakshi and Abhishek Banerjee held a meeting with them in Kolkata on Wednesday.According to party insiders, Mamata warned the leaders against engaging in a slanging match that could thwart the Trinamool’s prospects in the district, particularly when Hooghly’s Singur had catapulted her party to power in 2011.
Trinamool seniors have formed a seven-member core committee for the Hooghly unit — comprising district president Dilip Yadav, leaders Kalyan Bandopadhyay, Ashima Patra, Aparupa Poddar, Becharam Manna and Tapan Dasgupta and district party spokesperson Prabir Ghosal — in order to “discipline” the district president, against whom allegations have been reaching Kalighat for months. It will convene its first meeting in Serampore on October 17.
The decision was taken after tempers frayed at the meeting during which a section of Trinamool leaders accused the district president of leading “anti-party” activities. They complained that Yadav was keeping company of those who celebrated BJP’s win in Hooghly in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.