A day after Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee dissolved the party’s national office bearers’ committee and formed a 20- Member working committee packed with party veterans amid a growing rift between the old guard and young turks, the BJP took a dig at the West Bengal Chief Minister.

BJP IT Cell head Amit Malviya in a tweet claimed that Mamata was forced to dissolve all the existing posts in the party after her nephew Abhishek Banerjee threatened to resign over the issue of “one person one post”.

“After Abhishek Banerjee threatened to resign on the issue of one person one post, a paranoid Mamata Banerjee dissolved all party posts, constituted a “committee”, marginalising those aligned to Abhishek,” tweeted Malviya and asked will the CM now sack all the ministers and run the government alone.

Fear of coup is real, he said.

Supporters of Abhishek Banerjee have publicly criticised veterans on the issue of holding multiple posts within the party and state administration.

Meanwhile, Banerjee will later name the new office bearers of the party.

Among the leaders who found a place in the new national working committee are Amit Mitra, Partha Chatterjee, Subrata Bakshi, Sudip Bandopadhyay, Abhishek Banerjee, Anubrata Mondal, Aroop Biswas, Firhad Hakim and Yashwant Sinha.

TMC’s leader in Rajya Sabha Derek O’Brien and veteran Lok Sabha MP Sougata Roy were not included in the committee.

Abhishek Banerjee’s influence in the TMC has been rising after the party registered a massive victory in state assembly polls held last year and stormed to power for the third consecutive term.

During the polls, the Diamond Harbour MP was projected as the “other” face of the party after Mamata Banerjee.

Abhishek Banerjee is no longer the national general secretary and it is to be seen whether he is re-appointed to that post or given another post.