List of leaders of the opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly explained

Post:Leader of the Opposition
West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Insigniasize:150
Insigniacaption:Seal of West Bengal Government
Incumbent:Suvendu Adhikari
Incumbentsince:10 May 2021
Style:The Hon’ble
Termlength:5 years
Till the Assembly Continues
Appointer:Speaker of the Assembly
Member Of:West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Reports To:West Bengal Government
Nominator:Members of the Official Opposition of the Legislative Assembly
Seat:Vidhan Bhaban, Kolkata

The Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly is the politician who leads the official opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.

Eligibility

Official Opposition[1] is a term used in West Bengal Legislative Assembly to designate the political party which has secured the second largest number of seats in the assembly. In order to get formal recognition, the party must have at least 10% of total membership of the Legislative Assembly. A single party has to meet the 10% seat criterion, not an alliance. Many of the Indian state legislatures also follows this 10% rule while the rest of them prefer single largest opposition party according to the rules of their respective houses.

List of Opposition leaders

NoPortraitNamescope=colConstituencyTermAssembly
Party
Vacant 19461957N/A
1Jyoti BasuBaranagar19571962 years2nd
Communist Party of India
(1)Jyoti BasuBaranagar19621967 years3rd
Communist Party of India
2Khagendra Nath DasguptaJalpaiguri19671969 years4th
Indian National Congress
3Siddhartha Shankar RayChowranghee19691971 years5th
Indian National Congress
(1)Jyoti BasuBaranagar19711972 years6th
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
4Biswanath MukherjeeMidnapore19721977 years7th
Communist Party of India
Vacant 197719828th
N/A
5Abdus SattarLalgola19821987 years9th
Indian National Congress
(5)Abdus SattarLalgola19871991 years10th
Indian National Congress
6Zainal Abedin19911996 years11th
Indian National Congress
7Atish Chandra SinhaKandi19962001 years12th
Indian National Congress
8Pankaj Kumar BanerjeeTollygunj14 June 200112 May 200613th
Trinamool Congress
9Partha ChatterjeeBehala Paschim21 September 200613 May 201114th
10Surjya Kanta MishraNarayangarh1 June 201125 May 201615th
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
11Abdul MannanChampdani2 June 20163 May 202116th
Indian National Congress
12Suvendu AdhikariNandigram13 May 2021Incumbent17th
Bharatiya Janata Party

Deputy Leader of the Opposition

NameTermParty
Ambica Banerjee1996–2006Indian National Congress
Trinamool Congress
Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury2006–2009Indian National Congress
Manas Bhunia2009–2011
Subhas Naskar2011–2016Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)
Nepal Mahata2016–2021Indian National Congress
Mihir Goswami2021–IncumbentBharatiya Janata Party

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Salary and Allowances of Leaders of Opposition in Parliament Act, 1977. Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Government of India. 1 October 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20100116211914/http://mpa.nic.in/actopp.htm. 16 January 2010.