Mamata Banerjee will be sworn in as the chief minister of West Bengal for the third time on May 5, her party announced on Monday. The newly elected Trinamool Congress MLAs unanimously elected Banerjee as the legislative party leader at a meeting, its secretary-general Partha Chatterjee said.

The legislators elected the speaker in the outgoing House, Biman Banerjee, as the pro-tem speaker in the new Assembly. “The newly elected members will take oath in the Assembly from May 6,” Chatterjee told reporters at the party headquarters.