“I Will Not Resign”: Mamata Banerjee Signals Street Showdown

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“I will not resign,” says Mamata Banerjee after TMC’s defeat in West Bengal. Alleging a “rigged” election and EC bias

By TRH Political Desk

New Delhi, May 5, 2026 — Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal, on Tuesday said that she will not resign. Holding a presser a day after her Trinamool Congress lost the West Bengal Assembly elections, Banerjee said: “I am not going to the Raj Bhavan to resign. The BJP has tried to cheat with the help of the Election Commission to win the elections.”

Banerjee asserted that she will not resign. “Not from a contest that was never fair, never free, and never meant to be,” she claimed, while addressing a press conference along with leaders from the TMC.

She even claimed that “this was a conspiracy scripted in Delhi and executed by a complicit Election Commission, rigged from the very first day to manufacture a predetermined outcome for its masters.” “Every institution was mobilised, every rule was bent, every safeguard was dismantled, and still, we fought them at every step, on every front, without flinching,” Banerjee stated.

She also stated that “if there is a moral victor in this battle, it is us.” “Didi (Mamata Banerjee) has given her word that she will be back on the streets where she was born politically, where she earned every ounce of the people’s love and trust, to stand shoulder to shoulder with her Maa, Mati, Manush,” said the TMC in a post on X.

The outfit also stated that “they have not silenced her. They have only given her more reason to fight.” Banerjee also stated that she will now strengthen the Opposition bloc, Indian National Developmental and Inclusive Alliance (INDIA). The BJP won a landslide victory in the West Bengal Assembly elections.

“Now, I don’t have any chair. I am free. I will return to the street. I will strengthen the INDIA bloc,” Banerjee said.

The TMC leader also said that Opposition leaders, including Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav, have called her. “They’ve all said that the West Bengal elections were not free and fair. They are all coming to Kolkata, one by one. I will now devote time to fight the BJP across the country,” said Banerjee.

While Banerjee has said that she wouldn’t resign from the post of the Chief Minister, Constitution experts argue that the tenure of the CM is indirectly linked with the Assembly, and with the new Assembly soon to be formed her tenure will automatically end.