TMCP president election: TMC forms high-powered advisory panel

Following the students’ unrest and plenty of complaints regarding the admission procedures, the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal seems taken have taken a fresh guard. The party looks to address the students’ issue across the state a tad seriously unlike all these years. In the process the Mamata Banerjee-led party formed an advisory committee for the election of their students’ wing president.

The advisory committee that was constituted at the Trinamool Bhawan on Saturday, named few senior leaders who will be overseeing the election procedure. State Education Minister Partha Chatterjee was named the chairman of the advisory committee who has seen the students’ unrest throughout the state for last few years. Mamata’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee was made the co-chairman of the panel.

The panel includes senior leaders Subrata Mukherjee, Subrata Bakshi, Ashok Deb and Tapas Roy with Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) leader Jaya Dutta as the convenor.

It may be recalled that the state witnessed unprecedented troubles in several colleges of the state and on most of the occasions fingers were pointed towards Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) who has failed to douse the fire amidst growing factionalism.

The issue of admission to different colleges actually hit the lowest ebb when candidates made serious allegations against the TMCP leaders of making demands for bribe in order to get admission to different colleges. Quite naturally the party leadership wasn’t particularly pleased with the Jaya Dutta, who was removed from the president’s post months ago. Sources said that the election of the TMCP president will be finalised by the next week.

Apart from Chatterjee, Mukherjee, Bakshi, Tapas Roy and other frontline leaders, the meeting was attended by the general secretaries of different colleges and universities along with the unit presidents.

It is learnt that senior leader Mukherjee asked the students to welcome the newcomers with flowers and not ask for money. While reiterating the point, education minister Chatterjee warned the students to behave themselves and asked them to be present in lectures. “Staying away from lectures will cost students and for that no unrest should follow…Keep cordial relationship with teachers,” Chatterjee has apparently said that while asking the students associations to participate in every party activities.

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