Mamata for PM in 2024, Abhishek for Bengal CM, says TMC MP
India Today
TMC MP Aparupa Das on Tuesday tweeted that Mamata Banerjee will become the Prime Minister in 2024 and Abhishek Banerjee will be made the Chief Minister of Bengal in 2024. She, however, deleted the tweet within an hour.
A day after Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh took to Twitter to state that Abhishek Banerjee will become Chief of Bengal in 2036, TMC MP Aparupa Poddar seemed to clarify his tweet.
Poddar tweeted that Mamata Banerjee will become the Prime Minister in 2024 and Abhishek Banerjee will be made the Chief Minister of Bengal in 2024.
Poddar tweeted, "In 2024, Mamata Banerjee will be sworn in as the Prime Minister by an RSS-selected President; Abhishek Banerjee will become the Chief Minister of Bengal." Within an hour of her putting up her post, however, Poddar deleted the tweet.
On the first anniversary of the Trinamool Congress' third-term victory in Bengal, the party's spokesperson, Kunal Ghosh, had said that Abhishek Banerjee will take over as Bengal's chief minister in 2036.
"As a soldier of the Trinamool Congress, I can say that Mamata Banerjee will be the chief minister of Bengal till 2036. And in 2036, she will be present as a guardian at a ceremony where Abhishek Banerjee [Mamata’s nephew] will be sworn in as the chief minister," Ghosh had tweeted.
"Mamata Banerjee will set a precedent in India by breaking Jyoti Basu's record as the [longest-serving] chief minister," he added. Jyoti Basu was the longest-serving chief minister of West Bengal. His 23-year stint as a CM — from June 21, 1977, to November 5, 2000, — remains the second-longest, only one year short of the 24-year-long service of Pawan Kumar Chamling, who served as the CM of Sikkim from December 12, 1994, to May 26, 2019.
