Kalyan Banerjee blames Abhishek's Camac Street ecosystem, I-PAC for TMC collapse
Senior TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee on Tuesday renewed his blistering attack on party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, alleging that the "Camac Street ecosystem" built
Senior TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee on Tuesday renewed his blistering attack on party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, alleging that the "Camac Street ecosystem" built around him had hollowed out the organisation and played a key role in the party's collapse in the 2026 West Bengal Assembly polls. Escalating his criticism amid the deepening split within the TMC, Banerjee alleged that leaders and workers who had operated through Abhishek's Camac Street office and political strategist I-PAC were now either joining the rebel camp or turning against the very leadership they once projected as unassailable. Read Full Story "Camac Street has finished the party," Banerjee said, in one of his sharpest attacks yet on Abhishek Banerjee's political style and the organisational structure that evolved around his office on Camac Street. He also levelled allegations against Abhishek Banerjee's aide Sumit Roy, claiming that several grassroots organisers who had coordinated party affairs through the Camac Street office were now facing police pressure and being coerced into joining the Ritabrata Banerjee-led rebel faction, an allegation that could not be independently verified.
According to Banerjee, many of those now spearheading the rebellion were the very leaders who had earlier benefited the most from their proximity to Abhishek Banerjee and I-PAC. "They enjoyed every privilege, projected themselves as Abhishek's representatives and used that identity to exercise influence. Today, they are the ones attacking him the most," he said. Banerjee also revived his long-running criticism of election consultancy firm I-PAC, accusing it of replacing the party's traditional organisational culture with a consultant-driven political model that ultimately weakened the TMC from within. He alleged that the consultancy exercised disproportionate influence over candidate selection and organisational decisions, sidelining experienced party workers and encouraging a culture of patronage rather than political commitment. Political parties, he said, could not be run through surveys, data analytics and external agencies but only through sustained engagement between workers and voters. Banerjee further claimed that I-PAC had created unrealistic expectations among numerous aspirants by giving them hope of securing Assembly nominations. When many of them were denied tickets, resentment spread across the organisation, contributing to internal sabotage during the assembly polls, he alleged.
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