Guwahati: Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal, was re-elected as the chairperson of the Trinamool Congress party on Wednesday, an official said.
After a five-year hiatus, the ruling TMC administration held organizational elections.
According to TMC Secretary General Partha Chatterjee, CM Banerjee was elected without a contest as the party’s leader because no other candidate entered the race.
“A total of 48 proposers and seconders had supported Mamata Banerjee’s candidacy. Mamata Banerjee was re-elected without opposition because there was no other candidate for the position of chairwoman “The returning officer for the organizational votes, Chatterjee, remarked.
After splitting from the Congress in 1998, Mamata Banerjee created the All-India Trinamool Congress (AITC or TMC) and became its first chairman. In Bengal assembly elections in 2001 and 2006, the party was defeated, but in 2011, riding the crest of huge public indignation against the Communists, the Party rose to power, ousting the formidable Left Front dictatorship.
In May of last year, it swept to power for the third time in a row, winning 213 of the 294 seats in the state legislature.