{"id":34018,"date":"2026-07-11T19:16:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T13:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/another-setback-to-mamata-banerjee-didi-confidant-anubrata-mandal-joins-rebel-camp-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T19:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T13:46:36","slug":"another-setback-to-mamata-banerjee-didi-confidant-anubrata-mandal-joins-rebel-camp-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/another-setback-to-mamata-banerjee-didi-confidant-anubrata-mandal-joins-rebel-camp-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Another setback to Mamata Banerjee: Didi confidant Anubrata Mandal joins rebel camp | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132331914,imgsize-966734,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/ritabrata-banerjee.jpg\" alt=\"Another setback to Mamata Banerjee: Didi confidant Anubrata Mandal joins rebel camp\" title=\"Ritabrata Banerjee declares Anubrata Mandal as party president of Birbhum district\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Ritabrata Banerjee declares Anubrata Mandal as party president of Birbhum district\">Ritabrata Banerjee declares Anubrata Mandal as party president of Birbhum district<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/mamata-banerjee\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Mamata Banerjee<\/a>\u2019s close aide Anubrata Mandal joined the rebel camp led by Ritabrata Banerjee Saturday serving another blow to the Trinamool Congress (TMC).<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>The talks of Mandal joining the rebel camp was ongoing but the confirmation came as Ritabrata announced presidents of several districts, naming Mandal as the Birbhum chief.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>&#8220;We have appointed the Presidents of various districts. Prasun Banerjee has been made the President of Malda district, Debashis Kumar of South Kolkata district, Sandipan Saha of North Kolkata district, Anubrata Mandal of the Birbhum district,&#8221; he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>Once considered one of Mamata Banerjee&#8217;s closest aides, Anubrata Mondal remained tight-lipped about his political plans since the May 4 results, even as several prominent Birbhum MLAs, including former minister Chandranath Sinha and Kajal Sheikh, joined the rebel camp. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Mondal spent 25 months in jail in connection with an alleged cattle smuggling case before securing bail in September 2024.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/another-setback-to-mamata-banerjee-didi-confidant-anubrata-mandal-joins-rebel-camp\/articleshow\/132331635.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ritabrata Banerjee declares Anubrata Mandal as party president of Birbhum district NEW DELHI: Mamata Banerjee\u2019s close aide Anubrata Mandal joined the rebel camp led by Ritabrata Banerjee Saturday serving another blow to the Trinamool Congress (TMC).The talks of Mandal joining the rebel camp was ongoing but the confirmation came as Ritabrata announced presidents of several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}