Mamata Banerjee elected TMC Legislature Party leader
Party stakes claim to form government
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Kolkata, May 15 2011:
Mamata Banerjee was today formally elected Trinamool Congress Legislature Party leader and said pre-poll ally Congress would be part of her "small" ministry.
Two days after her party stormed to power with three- fourths majority, ending 34 years of Left Front rule in West Bengal , the name of 56-year-old Banerjee as TCLP leader was proposed by Subrata Bakshi.
The formality of her election was completed at Maharashtra Niwas hall in south Kolkata where all the 184 newly-elected Trinamool Congress MLAs were present.
The Trinamool Congress today formally staked claim to form government in West Bengal shortly after Mamata Banerjee was elected Leader of its Legislature Party.
A four-member Trinamool Congress delegation met Governor M K Narayanan and submitted a list of 184 party MLAs staking claim to form the government.
Trinamool Congress chief Banerjee was not in the delegation as she had left for Delhi with Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to invite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi for the swearing-in ceremony, the date of which has not yet been announced.