India, March 20 -- West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday set up a group of ministers and a task force of senior officials to ensure that governance was not impacted due to her week-long visit to the UK beginning March 21.

Abhishek Banerjee, national general secretary of the Trinamool Congress along with Subrata Bakshi, president of the Bengal TMC unit and other senior leaders will manage the party, she said.

"The group of ministers will coordinate with us if any policy decision needs to be taken or any problem arises without taking any decision themselves. The team will comprise Chandrima Bhattacharya, Firhad Hakim, Aroop Biswas, Sujit Bose and Shashi Panja. There will be a time difference of 5.5 hours. So, I hope they ...