TMC names Abhishek for all-party delegation

New Delhi: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) connected Tuesday announced that it’s Lok Sabha MP and nationalist wide caput Abhishek Bannerjee volition articulation the multi-party delegation to overseas capitals, a time aft it withdrew Yusuf Pathan from the group.

Abhishek Banerjee is the second-in-command successful the party, and the planetary vulnerability tin further adhd to his enactment credentials. (ANI PHOTO)

According to a TMC functionary, Union parliamentary affairs curate Kiren Rijiju called West Bengal main curate and enactment chairperson Mamata Banerjee to “seek her proposition for a typical from TMC”.

Mamata Banerjee recommended Abhishek Banerjee’s sanction to Rijiju during the telephone call, the functionary added.

The improvement is simply a large governmental triumph for the TMC arsenic it has maintained that lone the enactment main tin nominate lawmakers, and besides underlines the Narendra Modi government’s effort to see each large parties for this important issue.

Abhishek Banerjee replacing Yusuf Pathan, a archetypal clip MP, besides adds governmental value to the TMC’s representation. For each applicable purposes, Abhishek Banerjee is the second-in-command successful the party, and the planetary vulnerability tin further adhd to his enactment credentials.

Abhishek Banerjee, who attended the gathering of the outer affairs committee connected Monday, had told reporters aft the meeting, “When it comes to warring panic and protecting nationalist interest, TMC volition basal enarthrosis to enarthrosis with the Union government. But the Centre can’t determine unilaterally who volition spell from which party. We should besides nonstop household members of the victims of terror, we should besides nonstop service officers.”

“This is not the clip to play politics. TMC volition nonstop members if the authorities asks,” helium had added.

Former Indian cricketer Pathan was named successful the delegation which was headed by Janata Dal (United) person Sanjay Jha and going to Indonesia, Malaysia, Republic of Korea, Japan and Singapore. But his inclusion came nether a unreality connected Monday.

The authorities had archetypal contacted TMC’s Lok Sabha person Sudip Bandopadhyay, past its Rajya sabha person Derek O’Brien earlier it announced Pathan’s name. According to 2 leaders of the TMC, the enactment objected to the mode the authorities straight nominated a TMC MP without consulting the party.

During the Atal Bihari Vajpayee regime, TMC’s Lok Sabha MP Sudip Bandopadhyay was invited straight by the PM to instrumentality oath arsenic a curate of state. An upset Mamata Banerjee wrote to Vajpayee and yet Bandopadhyay was not inducted successful the Union assembly of ministers.

Pathan is simply a archetypal clip MP from Baharampur. He defeated Congress heavyweight Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury successful the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.