Mamata re-elected party chief
Paschimbanga Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was elected national chairperson of All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) in an organisational poll yesterday.
TMC's general secretary and returning officer of the election Mukul Roy announced her victory in Kolkata.
The polls began with the election of chairperson of Trinamool Congress, would be followed by state, district and block-level polls for the party's different positions, Roy said.
Mamata became chief minister of Paschimbanga in May this year when TMC and Congress alliance recorded a historic win dislodging the 34-year-old left front regime.
After leaving congress in 1997, Mamata founded TMC in 1998 and re-elected to the post in 2001 and 2006.
Roy said about 11,000 members, including the party's members of parliament and assemblies in states, participated in the election process.
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