Trinamool Rebel Gets Opposition Role, Asks Mamata Banerjee To Be ‘Adviser’

The split in the Trinamool Congress apparently passed the point of no return today as Bengal assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose approved the party’s rebel leader Ritabrata Banerjee as the Leader of the Opposition. Even the keys of the room allotted to the Opposition at the state assembly was handed over to him.

That the party has been collapsing like a deck of cards in less than a month of its defeat in the state election, became evident as minutes later, Firhad Hakim – a key aide of Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee — stepped down from the post of the Kolkata Mayor.

Earlier in the day, Trinamool had dissolved all its committees and frontal organisations with “immediate effect” saying it needed to introspect.

To make it clear the new order has definitely arrived, Ritabrata Banerjee — who was expelled from Trinamool Congress earlier this week — allotted a new role to the Trinamool chief. (UPDATED ON 3RD JUNE 2026)