Updated On: 10 May, 2021 12:00 AM IST | Kolkata | PTI
Adhikari had won election from Nandigram assembly seat, defeating his former mentor-turned-political adversary Mamata Banerjee by a narrow margin of over 1900 votes.

BJP party symbol. File Pic
BJP on Monday chose Suvendu Adhikari as Leader of Opposition in the new West Bengal Assembly.
Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad announced Adhikari's name as leader of the BJP legislature party in the assembly after a meeting of the legislators at the party's Hastings office.