Amid rumours of rift, IPAC chief Prashant Kishor shared the stage with Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee at the party’s extended state committee meeting on Tuesday.
The controversy began with the uploading of the controversial candidate list for municipal polls on AITC Twitter handle. Senior leaders called it a “fake”, blaming IPAC.
The buzz that the relationship between IPAC and TMC had ended reached its peak ahead of the Goa election. Kishor’s presence at a party event assumes significance and put the speculation to result.
At the meeting, Banerjee made Subrata Bakshi the president and vice-president of state committee, which includes Amit Mitra, Derek O Brien, JayPrakash Majumdar (who joined on Tuesday from the BJP), Saugata Roy, Shobhon dev Chatterjee, Shatabdi Roy, Dev. Banerjee also reconstructed the disciplinary committee, including Abhishek Banerjee.
Banerjee has merged the state committee, with a right mix of the young generation…