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TMC designates six MPs for speaking to media

New Delhi: Amid the ongoing reshuffle, Trinamool Congress - the ruling party of West Bengal has approved six 'party designated' spokespersons on Monday and issued an official release.

Party's Rajya Sabha member Derek O'Brien, Parliamentary Party leader of Lok Sabha Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Lok Sabha MP and veteran TMC leader Saugata Roy, Lok Sabha MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, another Lok Sabha member Mahua Moitra and former Rail Minister Dinesh Trivedi are the six national spokespersons of TMC.

The party said, "We have noticed that some TV channels are inviting guests on shows and referring to them as Trinamool (TMC) supporters, TMC sympathisers, etc. We 'DO NOT' subscribe to this. Only the six persons mentioned above are authorized to speak on behalf of the party to the national media. If you still choose to invite any other persons on the show, other than an approved spokesperson, please 'DO NOT' call them TMC supporters or use TMC, Trinamool, AITC, or any other term related to the All India Trinamool Congress to describe the panellist."

Recently, the party supremo and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee expressed displeasure over the media reports on the alleged 'political murder' of BJP supporters in the state and did not attend the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's oath-taking ceremony in the last month.

In the release the party further said no party spokespersons will give reactions over the phone. After the saffron party ups the ante in the state during the recent general elections with 18 Lok Sabha seats, out of 42, the incumbent party has held many meetings with the winning candidates and the grass-roots level party cadres and had conducted reshuffles in both organisation level and government level.

The TMC saw its Lok Sabha seat tally come down to 22 in 2019, from 34 in 2014.

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