TMC chief Mamata Banerjee lost her Bhabhanipur seat to BJP's SUvendu Adhikari in the recently held Assembly polls. 3 min read Kolkata May 10, 2026 06:50 PM IST First published on: May 10, 2026 at 06:34 PM IST As the BJP era in West Bengal gets underway, the Trinamool Congress’s (TMC) leadership team in the Assembly is full of leaders seen as close to party chairperson Mamata Banerjee, with those seen as close to her nephew and second-in-command Abhishek Banerjee not finding any space. The last TMC government had several leaders from the Abhishek camp in the party. Though the party statement announcing the appointment of Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay as the Leader of the Opposition, Asima Patra and Nayana Bandopadhyay as deputy leaders of Opposition, and Kolkata Mayor Firad Hakim as the Chief Whip bore the signature of party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, all four are close to Mamata. The party said the leaders would work “with commitment in the interest of the people of Bengal”.…