Suvendu Adhikari LoPThe BJP Legislative Party has picked Nandigram MLA Suvendu Adhikari as the leader of party’s 77 MLAs who were elected in the recently held assembly polls. He will now be the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly. Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, Central General Secretary Bhupender Yadav, State BJP President Dilip Ghosh were among the senior party leaders present during the legislative party meeting held in Kolkata today. Now, it will be Suvendu Adhikari vs Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal Assembly.
Notably, Adhikari was close aide of TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and had joined the BJP in December las year. Banerjee contested against protégé-turned-foe Adhikari from Nandigram but lost by a thin margin of 1956 votes.
While Mamata Banerjee-led TMC has won 213 seats, two more than 211 it won in the 2016 polls, the BJP has managed to increase its presence from 3 seats in 2016 to 77 seats in 2021. It has emerged as the second larges party in the recently held polls. The Congress-CPI(M) alliance failed to win even a single seat.
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