Kolkata: The Chief Minister of West Bengal and Trinamool Congress party supremo Mamata Banerjee on Saturday offered to quit from post following her party’s drubbing in recently concluded the Lok Sabha poll results but the TMC rejected it.
Addressing her first press conference after the election results were declared, she accused the BJP of polarising the people on religious lines to garner votes in West Bengal.
“At TMC’s internal meeting, I offered to leave the chief minister’s post. However, the offer was rejected by the party and I may continue,” Banerjee said.
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She also raised suspicion over BJP’s stellar poll performance.
“This huge victory is not beyond suspicion. It is quite astonishing how opposition is completely wiped out in several states. There has been some setting and foreign powers are also involved,” she claimed.
The TMC chief also said that an emergency-like situation was created in the state by the BJP to win the elections.