Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said she would not resign as the West Bengal Chief Minister, a day after the Bharatiya Janata Party defeated her party in the Assembly elections.

Banerjee claimed that the Trinamool Congress had “morally won” the Assembly polls even though the BJP had officially secured a victory.

“Why should I resign?” the Trinamool Congress chief asked at a press conference. “I would have done that if I lost. If they think they can forcibly take power and get me to resign, they are wrong.”

Banerjee said that the party would set up a 10-member committee, of whom five will be members of Parliament, to “visit all the tortured areas”, ANI reported.

The chief minister claimed that BJP members “tried to capture the TMC headquarters” on Monday and threw stones at the office of the party’s National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee.

“You cannot torture like this,” Banerjee said, according to ANI. “If you torture people, please understand when you are not in power in Centre, you will have to face the same battle.”

The BJP has won 207 seats in the 294-member West Bengal Assembly, ending the 15-year rule of the TMC.

The Trinamool Congress won 80 constituencies on Monday.

Banerjee herself lost the Bhabanipur constituency to Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari.

The elections followed a special intensive revision of electoral rolls by the Election Commission across 12 states and Union Territories, including West Bengal.

Final rolls published in February initially excluded more than 61 lakh voters, with the process continuing through supplementary lists and adjudication of about 60 lakh “doubtful and pending” cases.

By April 6, about 91 lakh voters, nearly 11.9% of the electorate before the process began, had been removed.

Alongside the vote roll revision, the Election Commission exercised extensive powers under the Model Code of Conduct in the state, including the preventive arrest of more than 1,500 persons, even as the Calcutta High Court stayed earlier directives for such action.

About 2.4 lakh Central Armed Police Forces personnel were deployed in the state during elections, with Union Home Minister Amit Shah announcing that they would remain in the state for two months after the polls.

The Trinamool Congress had accused the Election Commission of arbitrarily deleting large numbers of voters through the special intensive revision exercise, and had approached the Supreme Court against it. The party had also questioned the deployment of a record number of personnel from the central security forces for the election.

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