Kolkata, June 15: Faced with the party's rout at the recent by-elections and panchayat polls in West Bengal and with polls to 16 municipalities in the state scheduled for June 21, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has underscored the need to overcome organisational weaknesses. "Orgnisational weaknesses was one of the points that was touched upon at a meeting held by Banerjee last night with her party MLAs, councillors and borough chiefs of Kolkata Municipal Corporation wherein she underscored the need to overcome it,” senior TC leader Saugata Roy said.

Asked whether she proposed any steps to overcome organisational weakness, one of the perceived key factors for the party's disastrous showing at the panchayat polls and at the recent by-election to the Nabadwip Lok Sabha seat which CPI(M) wrested from TC, Roy said, "No serious deliberations" were made on the issue at the meeting.
The meeting was basically called to discuss the party's future course of action to protest the recent "rigged" by-polls, he said.

Banerjee set up a one-man committee headed by him (Roy) to go into the "flaws" in the voters' list here and also to prepare a voter's list by the party itself.

TC, he said, would launch a series of agitations and take to the streets at all the 141 wards of Kolkata Municipal Corporation from tomorrow against alleged CPI(M) atrocities and rigging during the by-elections to Nabadwip Lok Sabha and Vidyasagar assembly seats.

Bureau Report