Infighting in Trinamul again came to fore in Cooch Behar as a number of party functionaries and leaders started voicing their grievances against party’s district chief Partha Pratim Roy and some of his aides for decisions, including the “arbitrary” formation of committees at different tiers of the party.

Khokon Mian, a district general secretary of the party, who was here to attend an event, labelled Roy an “incompetent teenager.”

“Committees at different tiers of the party have been formed in the district, but no discussion was done with most district leaders. Because of such decisions, people have started revolting within the party. I want to make it clear that an inexperienced and incompetent teenager cannot run the party. He is trying to play with fire. If required, steps should be taken against him,” said Mian on the side lines of the inauguration of the industrial fair at MJN Stadium.

Such remarks came a day after district Trinamul chief Roy announced committees of different tiers, right from the block level.

Bhusan Singh, another senior party leader and the immediate past chairman of the local civic body, on Wednesday announced he was stepping down from the post of the vice-president of Cooch Behar Town Block Trinamul committee. His allegations were the same, no discussions were held over committee fornation. “Many sincere leaders and workers have been left out of committees,” he had alleged.

Singh, who is now the chairperson of the board of administrators at Cooch Behar municipality has decided not to go by the district president’s decision and form a new town block committee.

“The district president ignored our suggestions and formed the committees on his own. We are not ready to accept it and will announce a new committee soon,” he said.

He is not alone. According to party sources, though Roy announced panchayat level committees, Dhaneswar Burman, the president of Tufanganj-II block, announced parallel committees in 11 panchayats of his block.

Roy’s announcement also triggered protests in Cooch Behar-I (A) block committee of the party and on Thursday, 10 persons, including office bearers and members, have tendered their resignations from the posts.

Rabindranath Ghosh, the NB development minister and seen as the tallest leader of the party in the district, sounded critical that discussions had not been done. He had been district president for 22 years and such problems never came up then, sources said.

In Cooch Behar, Trinamul infighting is seen as one of the key reasons of the emergence of the saffron brigade.

State leaders, including party supremo Mamata Banerjee time and again intervened to try and end such infighting and instructed the district leaders to sort it out amicably. The problem, however, seems to be far from ending.

“We had always consulted with elected representatives and leaders. It is unfortunate that such problems are cropping up within the party ahead of the Assembly elections. I have spoken with some leaders and we want the problems to be resolved at the earliest,” he said.Roy, the district Trinamul chief, denied commenting on the issue.