‘Why should I resign?’ asks Mamata Banerjee day after Bengal poll results, claims TMC ‘morally won’

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said she would not resign as the West Bengal Chief Minister, a day after the Bharatiya Janata Party defeated her party in the Assembly elections.

Banerjee claimed that the Trinamool Congress had “morally won” the Assembly polls even though the BJP had officially secured a victory.

“Why should I resign?” the Trinamool Congress chief asked at a press conference. “I would have done that if I lost. If they think they can forcibly take power and get me to resign, they are wrong.”

Banerjee said that the party would set up a 10-member committee, of whom five will be members of Parliament, to “visit all the tortured areas”, ANI reported.

The chief minister claimed that BJP members “tried to capture the TMC headquarters” on Monday and threw stones at the office of the party’s National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee.

“You cannot torture like this,” Banerjee said, according to ANI. “If you torture people, please understand when you are not in power in Centre, you will have to face the same battle.”

কালীঘাটে সাংবাদিক সম্মেলনে | Addressing the Press from Kalighat. https://t.co/pgpnNECkpV— All India Trinamool Congress (@AITCofficial) May 5, 2026

The BJP has won 207 seats in the 294-member West Bengal Assembly, ending the 15-year rule of the TMC.

The Trinamool Congress won 80 constituencies on Monday.

Banerjee herself lost...

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