Kolkata, May 27 -- Trinamool Congress leaders on Wednesday held a protest against the West Bengal Assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose for allegedly neither acknowledging the appointment of Leader of Opposition nor allotting a room to him as yet.

TMC MLAs also alleged that the Assembly Speaker refused to meet them.

On May 9, the TMC appointed senior leader Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay as the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly.

Kunal Ghosh said, "The Speaker is not giving the official acknowledgement for the Leader of Opposition. Speaker and Chief Minister's rooms are ready; the room of the Opposition Leader is not ready yet."

Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, a TMC MLA from Ballygunge seat, had won his seat with a margin of 61,476 (36.9 per cent).

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