Ritabrata Once Saw Lenin In Mamata Banerjee, Now He Is Driving A TMC ‘Bolshevik Revolution’

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• Ritabrata Once Saw Lenin In Mamata Banerjee, Now He Is Driving A TMC ‘Bolshevik Revolution’ Reported By, Edited By Last Updated: June 04, 2026, 10:44 IST Ritabrata may have brought the TMC to its knees and split it down the middle, but he insists that Mamata Banerjee remains his leader while describing her nephew as a "despot".
• Rapid Read Ritabrata Banerjee On Wednesday, Ritabrata Banerjee – a former communist-turned-TMC leader who once claimed to see Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in Mamata Banerjee – became West Bengal’s new Leader of Opposition with the support of 58 TMC MLAs.
• Life has come full circle for Banerjee.
• He has been expelled twice – first from the CPI(M) and then from the TMC.
• But instead of being crushed into oblivion, Banerjee rose like a phoenix and came to believe that the party of ‘Ma, Mati, Manush’ needed a Bolshevik-style revolution of its own.