Kolkata, June 20 (AHN) Amid a series of resignations of erstwhile Trinamool Congress leaders over the past few days, seeking relief from all organisational posts held earlier, party supremo Mamata Banerjee on Saturday reconstituted the party’s internal disciplinary committee.

The five members of the new internal disciplinary committee include the leader of the Trinamool Congress’s Parliamentary Party in Rajya Sabha, Derek O’Brien, his colleague in the Rajya Sabha, Dola Sen, party legislators Sovandeb Chattopadhyay and Asima Patra, and former party Rajya Sabha member Subhasish Chakraborty.

Incidentally, two former ministers in the previous state cabinet led by Mamata Banerjee, namely Firhad Hakim and Aroop Biswas, who were earlier part of the internal disciplinary committee, have been dropped this time.

Although Hakim remains a party legislator, Biswas was defeated in the recent polls.

Political observers have expressed doubts about how long this newly constituted internal disciplinary committee of Trinamool will remain in its present form, given the series of resignations by heavyweight Trinamool legislators from all party posts in recent days.

The national working committee of Trinamool met on Saturday afternoon at Mamata Banerjee’s residence in Kalighat, South Kolkata, where the decision to reconstitute the internal disciplinary committee was taken.

At the same meeting, a decision was also taken to include the party’s Rajya Sabha member Nadimul Haque as a member of the party’s national working committee.

To recall, in November 2024, Trinamool had formed three separate internal disciplinary committees, one at the Parliamentary level, another at the West Bengal Assembly level, and a third at the party level.

However, due to the current split in the party, many of those in these three committees have since joined the rebel camp. Mamata Banerjee has now formed a new single internal disciplinary committee of just five members.