Posters of Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Abhishek Banerjee claiming that in the next six months, the people of the State will see a new Trinamool have triggered speculation in the party’s rank and file. Several such posters, with photographs of Mr. Banerjee promising a “new and reformed” TMC could be seen in south Kolkata over the past few days.
“In next six months, a new Trinamool will surface, the way common people want,” the poster with the photograph of the party general secretary says. Interestingly, the posters do not have any mention of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Before Mr. Abhishek Banerjee’s rise in the party, there was hardly any major party campaign where the Chief Minister’s photograph was missing.
The party’s spokesperson, Kunal Ghosh, said that there was nothing wrong in such posters, and that they could have been “the work of over-enthusiastic party workers“. “On several occasions, Abhishek Banerjee has said that we need to learn and improve ourselves. We need to fulfil the aspirations of the masses,” Mr. Ghosh said.
