West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee declared she would not resign from office despite her party's loss in the state assembly elections, telling a meeting of Trinamool Congress MLAs in Kolkata on Wednesday that 'let them dismiss me.' The remarks came after the BJP secured 207 seats, while the TMC won 80, and Banerjee lost her Bhabanipur seat to BJP's Suvendu Adhikari.

Banerjee accused the Election Commission, CRPF, West Bengal Police, and Chief Electoral Officer of bias, alleging that over 1,500 TMC offices were seized and that she faced physical harassment during campaigning. She described the polls as an 'atrocity' rather than a free election and claimed the mandate in nearly 100 constituencies was 'looted' due to manipulated counting.

The TMC leader urged her legislators to wear black on the first day of the assembly session as a mark of protest and vowed to remove those who 'betrayed' the party. She rejected claims of a public mandate against her, calling the Chief Election Commissioner a 'BJP agent' and asserting that her party remained morally victorious.

The Election Commission has not responded to the allegations. The governor is expected to invite the BJP to form the government given its majority, and the assembly's first session will be convened shortly.