Kolkata: TMC Chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamatha Banerjee on Saturday formed a 20member national working committee, after dissolving all the existing posts in the party. She took the decision after convening a meeting with six senior party leaders at her Kali Ghat residence.

She will announce the names of the new office bearers will later. TMC senior leader Partha Chatterjee said that Mamatha Banerjee was re-elected as the Chairperson of the party recently where she announced a small committee to look after party affairs. He added that Banerjee will later appoint the new office bearers and accordingly it would be sent to the ECI.

She formed the national working committee comprising Amit Mitra, Partha Chatterjee, Subrata Bakshi, Sudip Bandopadhyay, Abhishek Banerjee, Anubrata Mondal, Aroop Biswas, Firhad Hakim, Yashwant Sinha, Asima Patra, Chandrima Bhattacharjee, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Moloy Ghatak, Jyotipriya Mallick, Goutam Deb, Buluchik Baraik and Rajesh Tripathi.

The differences came to the fore during the publication of the list of candidates for the municipal polls by the party, when two lists surfaced one signed by party Secretary General Partha Chatterjee and State Secretary Subrata Bakshi, and another prepared by I-PAC that had the support and patronage of Abhishek Banerjee. Though Mamata Banerjee said that the list prepared by Chatterjee and Bakshi was the official list, in many municipalities, Abhishek Banerjee overruled the Chief Minister’s decision and gave nominations to the candidates approved by Prashant Kishore and I-PAC.