Mamata elected leader of TMC legislature party

Mamata Banerjee has been unanimously elected as the leader of Trinamool Congress legislature party at its meeting here today.
TMC secretary general Partha Chatterjee, who was re-elected from Behala Paschim seat, proposed her name which was seconded by all the newly-elected MLAs of the party.
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While coming out of the Raj Bhavan after meeting Governor
Keshari Nath Tripathi, Banerjee said, "May 20 (today) is an auspicious day because it was on this day in 2011 our government took oath after the 'poribortan'... So we have come today to meet the Governor and give him a letter on behalf of our party."

Banerjee, who arrived at the Raj Bhavan along with party leaders Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Subrata Bakshi, Saugata Roy and Mukul Roy at around 1.43 PM, spoke to the governor for about 30 minutes.