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Calcutta, May 18: Mamata Banerjee today made a Muslim and a Scheduled Caste MP deputy leaders of the Trinamul Congress parliamentary party, indicating they could be her ministerial candidates. “Sultan Ahmed and Gobinda Naskar were unanimously elected deputy leaders,” the Trinamul chief said after the first meeting of her 19 newly elected MPs. Mamata will be the leader of the parliamentary party. Mamata is also said to have said that “proper respect given to the two MPs would send a good message to the minorities and the SC/ST people across Bengal”.