TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Saturday elevated MP Abhishek Banerjee as the party's all-India general secretary, a senior leader in Calcutta said.

Addressing a press meet, TMC leader Partha Chatterjee also said that the working committee has decided that one person will be allowed to hold just one post in the party, and the core committee has duly given its approval.

"Our party chief Mamata Banerjee has nominated MP Abhishek Banerjee as the all-India general secretary of the TMC," Chatterjee said, following two crucial meetings earlier in the day.

Abhishek, nephew of the party supremo, will be replacing Subrata Bakshi as the national general secretary, while actor-turned-TMC leader Sayoni Ghosh has been made the youth wing president - a post earlier held by the MP.

The party also appointed its MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar as the president of its women’s wing. It retained Sudip Bandopadhyay and Derek O'Brien as the parliamentary leaders.

Chatterjee further stated that no discussion was held on turncoats, who had quit the TMC to join the BJP ahead of the Assembly polls, and were now willing to return to the party fold.

Chatterjee also informed that Trinamul is planning to expand its wing outside Bengal -- a move that may influence the upcoming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Gujarat next year, as well as Lok Sabha elections scheduled for 2024.

Saturday’s meeting was the first major organisational meeting of the Trinamul Congress since the Assembly elections in Bengal.