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Is Trinamool Congress working on a strategy to rope in party whole-timers?

The state has 77,000 booths and word is that Trinamool will appoint four whole-time members per booth

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addressing TMC's Martyr's day rally
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Is the Trinamool Congress working on a strategy to rope in party whole-timers, a la Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Bharatiya Janata Party? A party meeting to be held today (July 29) at Kolkata's Nazrul Mancha has kicked off speculation that West Bengal's ruling party might be working in that direction. All MLAs, district- and block-level leaders are expected to attend the meeting. The state has 77,000 booths. Word is that Trinamool will appoint four whole-time members per booth. The target is to appoint 300,000 such members, who will not only identify and recruit new members but will