NEW DELHI: The Election Commission Saturday met with the representatives of each factions of Trinamool Congress, one headed by former West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and the opposite group headed by West Bengal chief of opposition Ritabrata Banerjee, amid their competing claims to being the actual get together entitled to the usage of its “twin flower” ballot image.The assembly with EC, amid the dispute over the get together’s authorised signatories and organisational elections, beneficial properties significance because it comes forward of the Nandigram and Rejinagar meeting bypolls scheduled for Oct 6. Provided that the nominations should be filed by Sept 16, EC might must take an interim name earlier than that on which of the 2 factions might contest on the TMC’s reserved image, in case each want to area their very own candidates.Whereas the faction led by Mamata claimed there was no inner dispute within the get together because the insurgent faction was “only a bunch of traitors” and that the nationwide working committee was very a lot inside its five-year time period, the Ritabrata faction argued that the get together structure supplied for a three-year time period that had resulted in Feb 2025.
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Mamata’s faction deputed a five-member delegation, comprising Derek O’Brien, Kalyan Banerjee, Sagarika Ghose, Saket Gokhale and advocate Abhinav Singh, to current its arguments. “There’s the Mamata Banerjee-led get together on one aspect and a bunch of traitors on the opposite. These are the identical MLAs who fought the election on a TMC ticket 5 months in the past. The TMC chairperson signed the get together image underneath which they fought elections. These MLAs acquired Rs 25 lakh of their financial institution accounts from the get together to contest elections,” it stated in a press release.Apart from Ritabrata, the five-member delegation of the insurgent faction included Akhruzzaman, Arup Roy, Chandrima Bhattacharya and Riju Datt.