New Delhi, June 3 -- The rebellion within the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress took a decisive turn on 3 June, as 58 dissident MLAs backed legislator Ritabrata Banerjee, who has been expelled from the party, as the leader of the legislature party and conveyed their decision to West Bengal Assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose.

In a move that could redraw the opposition's power structure in the House, sources said that Banerjee, along with fellow rebel MLA Sandipan Saha and several dissident legislators, met the Speaker and submitted letters of support signed by 58 MLAs, news agency PTI reported.

They also proposed a new leadership team, naming Banerjee as the legislature party leader, Javed Khan, Sandipan Saha and Shiuli Saha as deputy ...