The Nationalist Citizens Party of India has announced a new national organisational structure, appointing 27 national office-bearers, including seven former Trinamool Congress MPs who recently joined the party.
The appointments were announced by NCPI National President Jyotiprokash Chatterjee on Tuesday. The new organisational structure gives several former TMC lawmakers formal responsibilities within the party at a time when their political and parliamentary status continues to remain under legal scrutiny.
Among the former TMC MPs appointed to key positions are Abu Taher Khan, Deepak Adhikari Dev, Yusuf Pathan, Jagdish Chandra Barma Basunia, Rachana Banerjee and Mitali Bag. Five of them have been appointed Vice Presidents, while Mitali Bag and Bapi Halder have been given General Secretary responsibilities. The appointments formally place the former TMC lawmakers within the national organisational structure of the NCPI.
The newly announced list also includes Chandrima Panja as Vice President. Uttiya Kundu, Sulekha Bhunia, Vivek Mishra and Shuvendu Chakraborty have been appointed General Secretaries.
A number of other leaders have also been assigned responsibilities as Secretaries. The list includes Avishek Mukherjee, Kallol Chakraborty, Bappa Sardar, Prabir Mahata, Mrityunjoy Sinha, Pallab Mukherjee, Dibyendu Das, Biplab Deb, Pradip Dhar, Susmita Bhunia, Swati Goswami Bose and Monalisha Khatun.
Swarup Jaiswal has been appointed Treasurer, while Sudam Jetty has been given the responsibility of Joint Treasurer. The appointments mark an expansion of the NCPI's organisational structure following the entry of former TMC lawmakers.
The development comes several months after 20 TMC Lok Sabha MPs announced that they were leaving the party and joining the NCPI. The group has said that its move constitutes a valid merger and has extended support to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance.
The political status of these 20 MPs remains a matter of legal and parliamentary proceedings. Disqualification petitions were filed against the lawmakers under the anti-defection law after their move away from the TMC. The petitions followed a request for action from TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee.
The Lok Sabha Secretariat had issued notices to the 20 MPs in connection with the disqualification proceedings. The lawmakers have maintained that their move to the NCPI qualifies as a valid merger under the provisions of the anti-defection law. The matter has also reached the Supreme Court.
The latest NCPI appointments have therefore taken place against the backdrop of an ongoing dispute over the parliamentary status of the former TMC MPs. While the NCPI has incorporated several of them into its national organisational structure, the legal proceedings concerning their Lok Sabha membership remain separate from the party's internal appointments.
The new list does not include some prominent former TMC MPs who were associated with the rebel parliamentary group. Senior TMC MPs Sudip Bandyopadhyay and Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar have not been included in the 27-member national office-bearer list announced by the NCPI. Their omission has attracted attention because both were prominent figures in the group of TMC lawmakers who moved away from the party.
The move of the 20 MPs to the NCPI had emerged as a major political development after the 2026 West Bengal Assembly election. The MPs announced their merger with the NCPI and said they would support the NDA in Parliament. The development brought significant attention to the relatively lesser-known NCPI, which became the political platform chosen by the rebel TMC MPs.
The question of whether the move satisfies the requirements of the anti-defection law remains subject to the ongoing proceedings. The former TMC MPs have argued that their move is protected as a merger, while the TMC has challenged their position and sought disqualification.
The latest organisational appointments do not by themselves determine the outcome of those disqualification proceedings. The parliamentary status of the lawmakers will ultimately depend on the relevant constitutional, statutory and judicial processes.
The NCPI has described itself as a separate political force within the NDA. With the appointment of its new national office-bearers, the party has now given several former TMC MPs formal positions in its organisational hierarchy.
The development is expected to remain a subject of political and legal attention as the proceedings concerning the 20 former TMC MPs continue. The next significant developments will depend on the responses submitted by the lawmakers, proceedings before the competent authorities and any directions issued by the Supreme Court.