Mahua Moitra, who left her job of vice president at JP Morgan in the UK two years ago to try her hands in politics and create a youth brigade of the Congress at the call of Rahul Gandhi in the rural belts of Bengal, was seen in the Trinamool headquarters on EM Bypass today.

Trinamool sources confirmed a dialogue has been opened with her about joining the party. Moitra is the state co-ordinator of Youth Congress led by Rahul Gandhi.

“She is here. She is keen on being with us. We are holding talks with Mamata Banerjee,” said Partho Chatterjee, Trinamool MLA and leader of the Opposition.

“We are yet to formally declare anything on her role and responsibility. In our party, her expertise, managerial skills and work at the grassroots level in politics will come in handy. She is young and will be an asset to our party,” said a Trinamool leader.

Moitra, however, declined to comment on her meeting with Banerjee at the Trinamool Bhawan. “I do not want to comment anything on this,” she said.

On Monday evening, Moitra visited the Trinamool Bhawan travelling in a same car with Banerjee. The duo held an hour-long closed-door meeting later.

Moitra studied in Kolkata and later studied economics and mathematics at the Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts in the US. She went on to become a vice president at JP Morgan in London . Later, in 2009, she was among the first batch of young professionals to quit the lucrative job abroad and join the Congress.

At present, eight Bengal districts are included under the Aam Admi Ki Sipahi (AAKS) project, where Moitra was working to educate villagers about their rights and central government schemes — Coochbehar, Nadia, North Dinajpur, Darjeeling, Malda, North 24-Parganas, Murshidabad and West Midnapore.

Moitra was also assigned the job of rejuvenating the Congress from the grassroots level and imparting training programme to party workers in every block of the state.

“I know she is there (in Trinamool headquarters). But she has not told us anything officially about her leaving the Congress,” said Amitava Chakraborty, youth Congress president of Bengal.

According to sources, if Moitra joins the Trinamool, it will be a prestige issue for the Congress. “She is one of the most high-profile leaders of the state who abandoned her good professional career and joined the party to work at the grassroots level,” said a senior Congress leader.