Did not want to continue as West Bengal CM: Mamata Banerjee says after TMC meeting
Kolkata, May 25 (IBNS): At the end of the Trinamool Congress meeting following the Lok Sabha polls results which saw the party's seat getting reduced significantly from its 2014 tally of 34, Mamata Banerjee said she did not want to continue as the Chief Minister of West Bengal but her party insisted her to continue.
The Bharatiya Janata Party- which won a landslide victory all over India- left the ruling TMC shocked in the Lok Sabha polls in Bengal as it won 18 seats in the state. The TMC won 22 seats.
This was the best result by the BJP in the state which is ruled by the TMC for the past eight years.
The BJP had two seats in the state in 2014.
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"I told at the beginning of the meeting that I don't want to continue as the Chief Minister," she said while addressing a press conference.
"The central forces worked against us and an emergency-like situation was created," she said.
"Hindu-Muslim division was done and votes were divided. We complained to the EC but nothing was looked into," she said attacking the PM Narendra Modi-led NDA government.
She said she can continue only if people are willing to take a bold step.
She said TMC needed to increase their vote share and BJP's vote has come from the Left. "This is mathematics," she said.
The four-party Left Front, that ruled the state for 34 years till 2011, managed to get only 7.8 percent votes in the polls. The party did not win a single seat in the elections.
The Congress clinched 2.
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