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The fall of ‘Didi’: How Mamata Banerjee’s Bengal fortress began to ... West Bengal Results 2026: Saffron tsunami in TMC turf, Mamata trounced, BJP secures historic win There was a time when Mamata Banerjee did not merely govern West Bengal — she embodied its political imagination . In Kolkata’s Bhabanipur in 2021, after the Trinamool Congress stormed back to power despite an unprecedented BJP campaign, the celebrations had the feel of a coronation. Green flags flooded the streets. Loudspeakers blared victory songs late into the night. Women stood outside homes showering petals as party workers danced through narrow lanes. "Nobody can beat Didi in Bhabanipur," people said then. Perhaps that still remains true. Even now, Mamata Banerjee is comfortably leading from Bhabanipur, the constituency that has evolved into both her political shelter and emotional citadel . But beyond the boundaries of her home turf, the Bengal she once dominated with near-mythical authority appears to be slipping away. Live Events The BJP is sweeping through the state, leading in 182 of the 294 seats, while the Trinamool Congress is struggling far behind. For a leader who built her politics around the idea t…

Mamata files plea in Calcutta HC challenging poll result in Bhabanipur Assembly seat she lost Suvendu Adhikari, now the first BJP CM of Bengal, defeated the TMC chief by a margin of 15,105 votes in the seat

Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee moves Calcutta HC challenging ... West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee moved the Calcutta High Court on Thursday challenging the polling process in the Nandigram assembly constituency. Her election petition has been listed for 11 am on Friday before a single-judge bench of Justice Kausik Chanda. Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee lost to BJP's Suvendu Adhikari from the Nandigram seat in the recently-concluded West Bengal Assembly elections. According to the Election Commission of India (ECI), themargin of victory was less than 2,000 votes. Mamata Banerjee had vacated her seat of Bhabanipore to contest the polls from Nandigram in a bid to challenge former confidante Suvendu Adhikari. READ:Bengal rape survivors of post-poll violence narrate horror, move Supreme Court While initial counting put Banerjee ahead of Adhikari by 1,200 votes, the BJP leader eventually managed to score a victory by defeating the two-time chief minister. Overall, the BJP increased its tally in the West Bengal Assembly from 3 to 77. The TMC, meanwhile, swept the election by winning 213 out of the total 294 seats. The Trinamool Congress had also sought a recoun…

Mamata files plea in Calcutta high court challenging Bhabanipur poll result Mamata Banerjee has challenged her Bhabanipur assembly election defeat in the Calcutta High Court. She lost the seat, previously her stronghold, by 15,105 votes to BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari. This challenge follows her earlier narrow loss in Nandigram during the 2021 Assembly elections.

Mamata files plea in Calcutta HC challenging Assembly poll result in ... Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief and former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday filed an election petition before the Calcutta High Court, challenging the Bhabanipur Assembly election result,where she lost to BJP’s Suvendu Adhikariby 15,105 votes. Adhikari went on to become the first BJP minister of the state. Banerjee, accompanied by TMC leaders Dola Sen, Derek O Brien, and Kunal Ghosh, reached the court around 2 pm to file the petition. Just last month, she had appeared in the Calcutta High Court on Thursday wearing a lawyer’s gown to argue a case related to post-poll violence. After the election results were announced on May 4, Banerjee held a press conference at her Kalighat residence the next day, saying the TMC had not lost. “They forcibly looted the votes,” she alleged. This is not the first time the TMC chief has challenged an election result.She had filed a similar petition in 2021when Adhikari got 1,10,768 votes as compared to her 1,08,808 votes in the Nandigram Assembly election. The case was filed in Calcutta High Court on May 21, 2021, and was placed before the bench of Justic…

Mamata files plea in Calcutta HC challenging Assembly poll result in ... Amid worsening crisis in the TMC, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday filed an election petition before the Calcutta High Court, challenging the poll result in the Bhabanipur assembly seat she lost to BJP's Suvendu Adhikari. This marks her second visit to the High Court after the party’s recent electoral setback. It should be noted that Suvendu Adhikari defeated Mamata Banerjee by a margin of 15,105 votes in the seat held by her. TMC sources said that Mamata Banerjee went to the high court registry to "affirm" the petition challenging the result. Counting of votes of the West Bengal assembly election was held on May 4. After the BJP's resounding win in the West Bengal Assembly polls, Suvendu Adhikari went on to become the first BJP chief minister of the state. In another development amid crisis in the party, Mamata Banerjee removed Saayoni Ghosh as the TMC's youth wing president as part of a major structural overhaul to tighten her grip over the organisation and replaced her with Arnab Banerjee, a youth leader, party sources said. The party also replaced on Saturday Kolkata Dakshin MP Mala …

Mamata hits out at Trinamool rebels, dares them to join BJP The former West Bengal Chief Minister, broke her weeks-long silence when her party had split with a majority of MLAs and MPs deciding to switch their loyalties after the defeat in the Assembly polls; accuses the rebels of betraying the party after winning on the party symbol

West Bengal Election row: Mamata Banerjee to challenge 2026 mandate in ... Mamata Banerjee, leader of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), on Wednesday, held a crucial meeting at her Kalighat house in which she declared that her party will challenge the verdict of the 2026 West Bengal Assembly polls in the Supreme Court of India. According to sources close to the developments, the outgoing Chief Minister has accused the BJP and the Election Commission of India (ECI) of rigging the elections in their favour. The decision came after the BJP emerged victorious with a majority win, crossing the 200-mark in the 234-member state assembly. ALSO READ|West Bengal politics: Is Mamata’s defeat the beginning of Opposition collapse in India? Notably, Mamata Banerjee will be making a return to legal activism. She, along with her outgoing minister Chandrima Bhattacharya, will be resuming their practice as lawyers. They have planned to personally fight the poll mandate in the court of law. Even though she lost at the state level, Banerjee is hopeful about making a comeback in the national arena. She assured her party members that her focus will be to consolidate the opposition INDIA alliance in Delhi…

Mamata files plea in Calcutta HC challenging Assembly poll result in ... ANI Mamata files plea in Calcutta HC challenging Assembly poll result in Bhabanipur seat she lost Kolkata, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday filed an election petition before the Calcutta High Court , challenging the poll result in the Bhabanipur assembly seat she lost to BJP's Suvendu Adhikari . Adhikari defeated Banerjee by a margin of 15,105 votes in the seat held by her. TMC sources said that Banerjee went to the high court registry to "affirm" the petition challenging the result. Also Read: PM Modi must take up with Donald Trump killing of Indian seafarers: Priyanka Gandhi Counting of votes of the West Bengal assembly election was held on May 4. Live Events After the BJP's resounding win in the West Bengal Assembly polls , Adhikari went on to become the first BJP chief minister of the state. Also Read: False propaganda, person in video not me: Bhagwant Mann on Akal Takht edict against him Add as a Reliable and Trusted News Source Add Now! (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel ) Read More News on Mamata Banerjee Bhabanipur assembly seat Calcutta High Court Trinamo…

42 Days After Bhabanipur Shocker, Mamata Challenges Poll Result In HC Updated 16 June 2026 at 15:48 IST Former West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee alleges electoral irregularities and seeks judicial scrutiny of the Bhabanipur Assembly election outcome that saw BJP's Suvendu Adhikari wrest her traditional stronghold. Deepti Verma India News 3 min read Follow : 42 Days After Bhabanipur Shocker, Mamata Banerjee Challenges Election Result in Calcutta HC | Image: @MamataOfficial Kolkata: Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday moved the Calcutta High Court challenging the result of the Bhabanipur Assembly election, escalating her legal battle against a verdict that dealt a major blow to the party and ended her long hold over one of its strongest bastions. According to reports, Mamata personally visited the Calcutta High Court to sign documents before filing the election petition challenging the outcome of the recently concluded Assembly polls. The petition seeks judicial scrutiny of the Bhabanipur result, where BJP leader and current West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari defeated Mamata by more than 15,000 votes in one of the most closely watched contests…

Mamata Banerjee no longer Bengal chief minister, governor dissolves ... West Bengal governor RN Ravi on Thursday dissolved the state assembly at the end of its five-year term. The move comes days after Trinamool Congress chiefMamata Banerjeedeclared that she would not follow the convention of going to the governor to hand over her resignation as the state’s chief minister despite losing a landslide election to theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In the absence of her formal resignation, there was no opportunity for the governor to ask her to continue as the caretaker chief minister till her successor took oath. “In exercise of the powers conferred upon the Governor under sub-clause (b) of clause 2 of Article 174 of the Constitution of India, RN Ravi Governor of West Bengal has issued an order dissolving the West Bengal Legislative Assembly with effect from May 7, 2026,” a statement by the governor’s office in Kolkata said. BJP leaders have indicated that the new government was likely to be sworn in on at Kolkata’s iconic Brigade Parade Grounds May 9, two days after the term of the outgoing assembly expires and coinciding with the birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore A senior …

Setback for Mamata Banerjee: Calcutta HC refuses to stay rebel TMC MLA ... The Calcutta High Court on Thursday declined to pass any interim order against West Bengal Legislative Assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose's decision to recognise MLA Ritabrata Banerjee, an expelled member of Trinamool Congress (TMC), as the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the House. JusticeKrishna Raowas dealing with a petition filed by senior Trinamool Congress leader Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, who is aligned with party chairperson Mamata Banerjee. The decision comes at a time when the TMC is grappling with internal divisions following its recent defeat in the State Assembly polls. The Court said it did not find any prima facie case in favour of the petitioner. "The interim order is refused,"the Bench said. The Court asked the respondents to file their response to the petition within three weeks and listed the matter for a hearing on July 28. After the West Bengal Assembly election results were declared on May 4, a meeting of TMC MLAs is stated to have been held on May 6. At this meeting, Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay was nominated as the LoP by the TMC. The decision was later communicated to the Speaker’s office…

Why Mamata Banerjee Lost West Bengal – 10 Reasons Decoded Mamata Banerjee swept out the Left after 34 years. She survived Nandigram in 2021 when every exit poll said she wouldn't. She built a welfare state that delivered cash, rice and dignity to Bengal's poorest — and made it personal. For 15 years, Mamata Banerjee was the undisputed leader and beloved ‘didi’ of Indian state politics. On May 4, 2026, that reign ended. With the BJP leading in 191 of 294 seats as per the Election Commission of India’s counting trends — well past the 148-seat majority mark — the saffron party is set to form its first-ever government in West Bengal. A party that polled 0.4% in this state in 1984 has just dismantled the TMC's fortress. Here is exactly how it happened. 1. Fifteen Years Is Too Long Mamata herself proved that in 2011, when she ended the Left's 34-year stranglehold. Anti-incumbency is not a mood, it is a mathematical certainty at some point. Fifteen years of the same party, same faces, same cadre networks, and the same complaints growing louder every cycle meant the wall had to break eventually. It broke today. 2. RG Kar Broke Mamata’s Core Promise The 2024 rape and murder of a trainee do…