{"id":199759,"date":"2026-05-06T09:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=199759"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:33:24","slug":"mamata-refuses-to-quit-calls-west-bengal-poll-conspiracy-not-peoples-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/05\/06\/mamata-refuses-to-quit-calls-west-bengal-poll-conspiracy-not-peoples-mandate.html","title":{"rendered":"Mamata refuses to quit, calls West Bengal poll \u2018conspiracy, not people\u2019s mandate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has ruled out resigning after the BJP\u2019s landslide win in the assembly elections, alleging the results were \u201cnot a people\u2019s mandate but a conspiracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Kashmir Media Service, Banerjee told a press conference in Kolkata on Tuesday that the Trinamool Congress was defeated \u201cofficially, through the Election Commission\u201d but claimed \u201cmorally we won.\u201d She accused the EC of bias, saying, \u201cWe did not fight the BJP; we fought the EC, which worked for the saffron party.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alleging large-scale irregularities in counting, she claimed nearly 100 seats were \u201clooted\u201d and the process was deliberately slowed to break her party\u2019s morale. \u201cI have never seen such an election in my entire political career. A black chapter in history has been created,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The BJP secured 207 seats in the 294-member assembly, ending TMC\u2019s 15-year rule. Banerjee said she would return to \u201cagitational politics\u201d and focus on strengthening the opposition INDIA bloc, noting calls from Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Arvind Kejriwal, and others. She also announced a 10-member fact-finding committee to visit areas \u201caffected by post-poll violence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has ruled out resigning after the BJP\u2019s landslide win in the assembly elections, alleging the results were \u201cnot a people\u2019s mandate but a conspiracy.\u201d According to Kashmir Media Service, Banerjee told a press conference in Kolkata on Tuesday that the Trinamool Congress was defeated \u201cofficially, through the Election …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/05\/Mamata.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199777,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199759\/revisions\/199777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}