In a picture makeover bid, the Trinamool Congress might not give tickets to ”tainted” leaders, who're both going through graft costs or have a poor public picture, within the panchayat polls in West Bengal due subsequent 12 months. The TMC has began a serious rectification drive after two senior leaders former minister Partha Chatterjee and occasion’s Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal have been arrested in reference to faculties jobs rip-off and a cattle smuggling case respectively.
The occasion has effected three inside surveys, together with one by Prashant Kishor’s I-PAC, in the previous few months to evaluate the functioning and conduct of its elected representatives and leaders in any respect ranges. ”A number of surveys have been performed, and a complete report has been submitted to the occasion management. The method of hunting down rotten components is underway.
”The rectification drive will peak throughout ticket distribution for panchayat polls subsequent 12 months. Greater than 50-60 per cent of the elected representatives may be dropped,” senior TMC chief Sougata Roy informed PTI.
Echoing him, TMC state vice-president Jay Prakash Majumdar stated the organisational overhaul course of began in August when presidents of a number of organisational districts have been modified. ”Since final month, the organisational overhaul is underway in any respect ranges. It is going to be accomplished by November this 12 months. Whereas the media is busy with the colleges jobs rip-off and cattle smuggling case, our occasion is silently present process main adjustments as a part of the picture makeover train,” he stated.
There have been adjustments lock, inventory and barrel in all of the district-level items of the occasion’s labour wing INTTUC and pupil wing Trinamool Chatra Parishad. ”Adjustments will happen in any respect ranges of the organisation. We've to rejuvenate and reinvent ourselves, and we'll do it,” Majumdar stated.
Posters claiming that a ”new and reformed TMC” will come into being in six months, bearing images of solely occasion common secretary Abhishek Banerjee, have been put up in numerous elements of Kolkata in August.
Though questions have been raised as to why was there no photograph of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee within the posters, Abhishek Banerjee dispelled all speculations saying, ”Mamata Banerjee is the one face of the TMC. New TMC means the occasion leaders will stand by the individuals, work and struggle for them, which was the premise on which we got here to energy in 2011.” The Opposition, nonetheless, mocked the TMC’s try and reinvent itself as an ”outdated wine in a brand new bottle”.
”The TMC is corrupt from high to backside. These makes an attempt are workout routines aimed toward fooling the plenty,” BJP nationwide vice-president Dilip Ghosh stated. State Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury alleged that ”new TMC and picture makeover” are aimed toward cementing Abhishek Banerjee’s grip over the occasion.
”Since January this 12 months, an inner-party wrestle throughout the TMC has been out within the open. Now, with some senior leaders arrested and others in a withdrawal mode, the younger brigade needs to cement its management over the occasion by eradicating outdated guards from all ranges of the organisation,” he stated. Political analysts, nonetheless, are divided over the intentions and impression of the TMC’s picture makeover train.
”The graft costs have badly hit the occasion’s picture. The TMC, with rural polls subsequent 12 months and Lok Sabha polls in 2024, needs to rebuild its picture,” political analyst Maidul Islam stated. Political scientist Biswanath Chakraborty felt that the picture makeover train won't yield desired outcomes and restrict itself to ”diverting consideration from the graft costs in the intervening time”.
”These won't give them the specified outcomes as there are severe questions over the workout routines’ intentions. Apart from, these within the younger brigade who need to reinvent the occasion are themselves not free from corruption costs,” he stated.
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