India, June 3 -- Former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her party Trinamool Congress seems to be facing one the biggest crises in recent years as the party might be headed for a split over disagreements on who will become the Leader of Opposition in the state assembly.

Ritabrata Banerjee, a TMC MLA who was expelled by the party on Monday for 'anti-party activities' along with Sandipan Saha, emerged as the central figure in the ongoing infighting in Trinamool which might lead to a Shiv Sena-style split.

Ritabrata currently enjoys the backing of a majority of TMC MLAs to become the state assembly LoP. As many as 59 dissident Trinamool Congress (TMC) legislators, led by Ritabrata, arrived at the state assembly in Kolkata on ...