Trinamool Congress National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday sent a fresh letter to West Bengal Assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose reiterating the party’s decision to appoint Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay as Leader of the Opposition, PTI reported.This amid a probe into an alleged signature forgery case and speculation about divisions within the Trinamool Congress legislative party following the expulsion of MLAs Ritabrata Banerjee and Sandipan Saha on Monday. The two legislators had alleged that signatures were forged in documents submitted to the Speaker in support of Chattopadhyay’s appointment, the news agency reported.On Tuesday, TMC MLAs Kunal Ghosh and Ashima Patra attempted to hand-deliver the letter to the Speaker. They alleged that the Speaker’s office secretary refused to accept it in Bose’s absence, saying he had been verbally instructed not to receive any letters from the party, PTI reported.“Till yesterday, the Speaker was receiving our letters,” the news agency quoted Ghosh as saying. “For unknown reasons, the office has stopped accepting them from today. How can he not receive an official communication from two elected MLAs?”The fresh letter, signed by Abhishek Banerjee, also endorsed Ashima Patra and Nayana Bandyopadhyay as deputy Leaders of the Opposition and Firhad Hakim as the chief whip.requested the Speaker to recognise the posts “on the basis of the precedent or practice of Legislative Assembly, which is in vogue for decades together”, PTI reported.The rowRitabrata Banerjee and Saha were suspended from the Trinamool Congress on Monday, after West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari claimed at a press conference that they had complained about forged signatures on the party’s letter. Adhikari said that the two MLAs have claimed that no such resolution had been passed and that the document had been fabricated.The Crime Investigation Department is probing the allegations.On Monday evening, officers of the Crime Investigation Department went to Abhishek Banerjee’s home in Kolkata for the second time in 48 hours and served him with a fresh notice directing him to appear at the agency’s headquarters on June 8, PTI reported.The notice was issued after he did not appear before investigators on Monday and instead sought two weeks’ time, citing health reasons.Investigators have so far questioned 13 TMC MLAs. Three of them – Baharul Islam, Arup Roy and Subhasis Das – have stated that the signatures attributed to them in the meeting resolution book are not theirs, the agency alleged.Edited by Tanya Shrivastava.