‘TMC leaders will be happy’: Who is new West Bengal Congress chief Subhankar Sarkar?

Sending retired the awesome that helium volition effort and bash things differently, Sarkar said connected Sunday, “This is not simply an individual’s assignment but a corporate assignment of each Congress workers, arsenic everyone is an adjacent stakeholder. It volition not beryllium astir maine alone, but ‘we’. Congress workers volition ever basal with the radical and collectively determine connected our policies and politics. Decisions adopted by the West Bengal Congress volition beryllium based connected people’s feedback, interior discussion, and communal consensus.”

“I americium starting from zero. I volition speech to our workers, territory and block-level leaders and past volition instrumentality decisions,” Sarkar told The Indian Express.

A elder authorities Congress person said the caller PCC main whitethorn effort and dial down the hostility betwixt the enactment and the TMC. “Subhankar is specified a look who is accepted by each the factions successful the party. Adhir Chowdhury personally likes him and his equations with the followers of the precocious Somen Mitra are bully arsenic well. Subhankar volition not beryllium truthful vocal a professional of the Trinamool Congress arsenic Adhir. He is simply a much mean person successful that respect. Naturally, TMC leaders volition beryllium happy,” said the Congress functionary.

Asked astir Sarkar succeeding him, Chowdhury told reporters, “I was not authorities president each the time. I remained a subordinate of the Congress moving committee and the party’s nationalist predetermination committee.”

TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh congratulated Sarkar connected Sunday. “Though from different party, (you are) a longtime friend, agelong acquaintance, and (we person had) occasional talks. Though a antithetic governmental party, it is besides bully to spot a person from a caller procreation instrumentality charge. Hope the world of Bengal authorities volition bespeak successful your steps,” helium wrote connected X.

Sarkar was calved into a household of state fighters successful a tiny colony successful Medinipur. His grandparents arsenic good arsenic his begetter Debabrata Sarkar were progressive successful the Independence movement. He began his governmental travel portion inactive successful assemblage and went connected to caput the West Bengal Chhatra Parishad, the party’s students’ helping successful the state, from 1996 to 2004. He aboriginal went connected to go the nationalist wide caput of the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), the party-affiliated pupil outfit and served successful the Indian Youth Congress from 2004 to 2006. The pursuing year, helium returned to authorities politics, serving arsenic the WBPCC caput till astir 2009. As his prima roseate wrong the party, helium was appointed a nationalist caput of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) successful 2013 and helium remained successful the station till 2018.

“I started my governmental vocation arsenic a booth cause and past went connected to service successful student, state, and nationalist politics,” Sarkar said.

His assignment astatine the helm of the WBPCC comes weeks aft the enactment reappointed him arsenic AICC nationalist caput and placed him successful complaint of its affairs successful Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, and Mizoram. In his erstwhile tenure arsenic AICC nationalist secretary, helium served arsenic the authorities in-charge of Odisha.