Rattled by LS Poll Results, Mamata Banerjee Offers to Resign as West Bengal Chief Minister

West Bengal Mamata Banerjee offers to resign as the Chief Minister in view of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections result.

Updated: May 25, 2019 6:15 PM IST

By India.com News Desk | Edited by Ashna Kumar

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Photo Courtesy: IANS
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Photo Courtesy: IANS

New Delhi: In a massive development coming from West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee today offered to resign as the Chief Minister, which was reportedly turned down by her party Trinamool Congress.

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With her party seemingly rattled after the Lok Sabha setback, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had convened an emergent meeting on Saturday afternoon at her Kalighat residence in South Kolkata to review the results and come up with a road map for a turnaround ahead of the Assembly polls.

Addressing a press conference later, Banerjee exclaimed, “I told at the beginning of the meeting that I don’t want to continue as the Chief Minister.”

The Bharatiya Janata Party won 18 out of 42 seats in West Bengal in the recently concluded 2019 Lok Sabha elections, speaking on the same, Banerjee said:

This move by Mamata Banerjee comes on the same day as the Congress chief Rahul Gandhi moving his resignation as the party chief at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meet. The CWC too unanimously rejected Rahul’s resignation and requested him to “lead the party in this challenging time”.

(This is a developing story)

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