TMC chief Mamata Banerjee has constituted the Tripura Pradesh unit of her party
Agartala: Trinamool Congress on Tuesday announced that it would launch a continuous movement in Tripura to “restore democracy” by ousting the Left Front government in the state assembly elections scheduled for 2018.
“Only insistent movement can oust the corrupt Marxist government from power. The way TMC led by Mamata Banerjee has ousted the Marxist government from power in West Bengal, Tripura too would follow the example,” president of the newly formed Tripura unit of the party, Asish Saha told reporters.
Meanwhile, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee has constituted the Tripura Pradesh unit of her party with Ashish Saha as its president, a party leader said here on Tuesday.
“With the approval of Mamata Banerjee, a 74-member TMC Tripura Pradesh Committee was announced late Monday night with Ashish Saha as state president,” TMC leader Sudip Roy Barman said.
He said that a nine-member state coordination committee was also announced with Ratan Chakraborty as chairman and Surajit Datta as convenor.
All the six TMC legislators and former Tripura Chief Minister Samir Ranjan Barman (1992-1993) are members of the coordination committee.
“Didi has formed the state committee and coordination committee comprising of both young and experienced leaders,” Barman told reporters.
“The new TMC committee would fight against the ruling Left Front to oust it from governance in the 2018 assembly elections,” he said. In the new TMC state committee, there are 10 vice presidents with eight general secretaries, secretaries and one treasurer. Protesting against the Congress’ electoral alliance with the Left parties in West Bengal, six of the ten party legislators led by Barman, along with many heads of the Congress’ frontal organisations, scores of party leaders and thousands of workers, quit the Congress and joined TMC few months back.
Both Chakraborty and Datta were former ministers of the Congress-led government that ruled the state from 1988 to 1993.
Saha alleged that the state’s employees were deprived because the recommendations of the sixth pay commission were not implemented.
Besides, a large number of youths were unemployed and crime against women was very high in Tripura. He announced that TMC supporters and activists would demonstrate before the RBI office here on January 3 against demonetisation, which caused “limitless inconveniences to the people”. (Agencies)