Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamatha Benarjee said that I have not lost, so I will not go to Raj Bhavan. I will not tender resignation. Speaking to the media reporters at a press conference on Tuesday evening she said that she has not lost, so she will not to go the Raj Bhavan to tender her resignation.

She promised to fight like a tiger cub argued today that she has not lost the election and the mandate the BJP got was the result of loot.  I have not lost, so I will not go to Raj Bhavan. I will not tender resignation, she said.

The term of the West Bengal assembly ends on May 7^th and the BJP could have just two more days to get the show on the road. She alleged that 100 seats have been stolen in this election. It was loot, loot, loot, she said after losing Bhabanipur constituency to BJP. She accused the Government and the Election Commission being complicit. Accusing the EC of playing nasty games and said the TMC’s real rival, is the commission and not the BJP.

Accusing the Government of direct interference, she said. This is how they stole elections from Maharashtra, Haryana, Bihar and now Bengal, she added. This is not how democracy works.  When the judiciary is not there, when EC is biased and the Government wants one-party rule, a wrong message is going to the world, she said.

She also said that she was assaulted at a polling station and that was why she could not meet the media yesterday. I was kicked in the belly and back. The CCTV was off. I was pushed out of the counting station. As a woman I was misbehaved with, she said. If Central forces can behave like this, I have nothing to say. I have seen former BJP Governments at the Centre. But nothing like this, she said.

She refused to reveal her party’s strategy for the coming days but said the leaders of INDIA bloc have contacted her and she has their backing. She said that her party will form a fact-finding committee with five MPs and others to go to places where the TMC is being attacked and party offices which have been vandalized.

LoP in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi accused the BJP of vote theft in Bengal. Rahul in his X post said that some in the Congress, and others, are gloating about TMC’s loss. They need to understand this clearly the theft of Assam and Bengal’s mandate is a big step forward by the BJP in its mission to destroy Indian democracy. Put petty politics aside. This is not about one party or another. This is about India. He backed Mamatha Banerjee’s claims of loot of 100 seats.

Assam and Bengal are clear cases of the election being stolen by the BJP with the support of the EC. We agree with Mamatha ji. More than 100 seats were stolen in Bengal. We have seen this playbook before Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Lok Sabha 2024 etc.