Shillong: Mamata Banerjee is not afraid to rebuild. The former West Bengal Chief Minister addressed her supporters in a Wednesday video message after her Trinamool Congress party fractured into three distinct factions. The party split leaves her and her nephew, Abhishek Banerjee, in charge of a minority group. Meanwhile, an expelled legislator named Ritabrata Banerjee controls the majority of the legislative party and the new national working committee. This rebel wing even replaced Mamata Banerjee with Arup Roy as the national chairperson.
The exodus continues. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Satabdi Roy, both four-time Lok Sabha members, recently abandoned the party along with two other members of the 28-seat delegation. They joined the Tripura-based Nationalist Citizens Party of India. Mamata Banerjee rejects claims that her preference for her nephew caused this desertion. She claims the defectors are simply driven by greed or fear. She said, "I was alone in 1997 when I decided to establish the Trinamool Congress and fight."
The party founder drew a line back to 1998. She insists voters supported the traditional party symbol because of her, not the rebels. She apologized to those voters for the betrayal of the defectors. She remains confident in her future. She noted that she currently has more resources than she did during the party's inception. If she could build it once, she can do it again by 2026. Abhishek Banerjee continues to hold the general secretary position and remains in the fight. Mamata expects him to battle on for the next 50 years.
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