New Delhi
The rift between pro-Mamata and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee camps continues unabated. The fiasco only shows that poll strategist Prashant Kishor's role in Trinamool Congress has been curtailed.
"Irrespective of whatever happens in local municipal elections, our problemsare far deeper," a key leader said and articulated that the party chairperson Ms Banereehas eclipsed Prashank Kishor or his organisation I-PAC's roles.
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Some political observers say most of the crisis has been created by Mamata Baneree's 'complex' personality.
She exhibits bravado and firmness at one hand, but all along her career, she has always faced or suffered the problem of inferiority complex. She is a 'victim' of a notion that others could be conspiring against her.
During P V Narasimha Rao, she fought with Lok Sabha Speaker Shivraj Patil for allegedly giving importanceto Pranab Mukherjee or Priyaranjan Das Munshi.
So much was her complex towards the Left during the communists days in power, she simply'hated' them.
"All along many Congress leaders in Bengal including Priyaranjan Das Munshi and Pranab Mukhereehad personal working relations with the Left. She did not. She was impatient but Mamata was consistent with her hatred towards the Maxists," says one analyst in North Bengal.
She used the same as a moral high ground, and circumstances helped her to turn this into a virtue.
Perhaps she had no complaint against Tatas, but she thought Tatas had joined hands with the thenCM Buddhadeb Bhattarcharya.
Now, in the same line, she is perhaps unable to see the rise of Abhishek and Prashant Kishor.
The Chief Minister has sidelined them and reposed faith in a team of three comprising a former journalist Kunal Ghosh, and ministers Aroop Biswas and Chandrima Bhattacharya for
sharing information etc with 'mainstream media'.
Of course Ghosh was a party general secretary and had gone behind bars earlier overthe vexed issue of Sharda chit fund scam.
At one time Ghosh, a former Rajya Sabha MP, was also considered close to Abhishek.
Aroop Biswas and Ms Bhattacharya are generally seen as part of the party's 'old guard team'.
Abhishek Banerjee and Prashant Kishor in the last few months had developed strong differenceswith the old guard - essentially comprising of Farid Hakim, Partha Chatterjee and a few others.
On Feb 4 an "unauthorised list" of candidates for the civic polls were put on the party's official pages and socialmedia handles. This had irked the old guard.
The crux of the issue lay in the fact that a line went around in party circles that since the May 2021 win, strategistPrashant Kishor was stealing the limelight as against Mamata Banerjee's personal role in stewarding theparty during a tough election.
There was also a I-PAC 'statement' attacking minister Chandrima Bhattacharya and the party leadership assuch over the allegation that the firm had 'uploaded content' using her handle in favour of the “one person, one post” policy.
Of course the drama is hardly over.
While Mamata Banerjee rules her party often with her whims and fancies screaming at her colleagues in public places and in front of the media, she also used to depend a lotin the past on leaders such as Mukul Roy.
Even Suvendu Adhikari, now in BJP and Leader of Opposition,was her trusted lieutenant in terms of managing organisational wings and youths in particular.
At one point, she was given to a complex that Mukul Roy had moved closer to Late Arun Jaitley.
This had unnerved her. Subsequently, Mukul Roy joined the BJP.
After the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, she started trusting Abhishek Banerjee presuming that he is her nephew and so there would not be any threat.
He was made president of TMC youth wing and since the 2021 state assembly elections,Abhishek almost turned a number two.
Earlier Mamata banked on loyalists Partha Chatterjee, Subrata Bakshi and Hakim as well.
The Abhishek-Prashant Kishor bonhomie had only aggravated the tussle against 'Didi' herself.
Several senior leaders were at pains to explain why for Trinamool, polls in Goa became more importantthan Manipur - where Mamata Banerjee had commanded a personal respect and even had five MLAs once.
Now that fear, her inferiority complex, has only grown.
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