Mamata Banerjee asks TMC leaders not to issue embarrassing statements

Kolkata: Ahead of Assembly polls in West Bengal slated for later this year, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee today directed the leaders to refrain from making statements which could embarrass the party.

"Our leader Mamata Banerjee has asked us not to make any statement which could embarrass the party," a senior TMC leader said on condition of anonymity.

She gave this direction while holding an organisational meeting with leaders of Birbhum district.

Trinamool's Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal has time and again courted controversy by making statements that had embarrassed the party leadership.

At another organisational meeting earlier this month, Mamata had directed party leaders to stay away from infighting.