Mamata Banerjee Reorganises TMC Youth and Women Wings, Replaces Key Office-Bearers

MP, June 13, 2026, Kolkata: Barely a week after Mamata Banerjee reappointed lawmaker Saayoni Ghosh as the TMC's youth wing president as part of a major structural overhaul to tighten her grip over the organisation, the party chief on Saturday removed the Jadavpur MP from the position and replaced her with Arnab Banerjee, a youth leader, party sources said.

The party also replaced Kolkata Dakshin MP Mala Roy with Alifa Ahmed, TMC MLA from Kaliganj in Nadia district, as the president of its women's wing, the Trinamool Mahila Congress, they added.

Both Ghosh and Roy are perceived to have joined the band of TMC's rebel MPs in the Lok Sabha amid a major turmoil currently rocking the party, with the dissidents stating they will meet Speaker Om Birla on Monday with a letter to seek recognition as the "real TMC", following the party's electoral drubbing in the 2026 West Bengal Assembly polls.

With senior MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay allegedly also joining the rebel camp on Saturday, leaders of the breakaway faction claimed that 20 of the party's 28 Lok Sabha members were already signatories to the said letter, including Ghosh and Roy.

Dissident MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar has declared that the bloc, once recognised, would offer support to the BJP-led NDA in Parliament.

Following a mutiny by the party's legislators in the state assembly, Banerjee had reconstituted the TMC's organisational committee on June 5 after dissolving all its former committees and frontal organisations across Bengal, packing the new leadership structure with party loyalists and old-timers.

She had reappointed the party's Diamond Harbour MP and her nephew, Abhishek Banerjee, as its national general secretary.

"In a related development, TMC's Beleghata MP Kunal Ghosh was named the president of the party's North Kolkata organisational district.

Meanwhile, veteran parliamentarian Saugata Roy was named the chief advisor of the TMC's Lok Sabha wing, which currently has eight MPs still owing allegiance to Mamata Banerjee.