Kathmandu. A day after the BJP’s landslide victory in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who is also the chief minister, rejected the election results.
She announced on Tuesday that she would not resign, accusing her of election rigging and vote counting irregularities, and hinting at a political and legal backlash.
“I will not resign, I will not lose, there is no question that I will not go to Raj Bhavan,” she said at a press conference in the state capital Kolkata on Tuesday. It’s their attempt to defeat us. Officially, through the Election Commission, they (Bharatiya Janata Party) may have defeated us, but morally we won the election. “
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Stepping up her attack, she said, “We have not fought the BJP, we have fought the Election Commission, which works for the saffron party,” she said.
Banerjee, who has led West Bengal since 2011, has collapsed after a decade and a half. Before him, Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had served as the chief minister of West Bengal for a decade.
