Overview
- Chakraborty said he is leaving public life to return to films and family, writing that politics is not for him anymore.
- He lost the Barrackpore assembly seat to BJP candidate Kaustav Bagchi by more than 15,000 votes after winning the constituency in 2021.
- Videos from the counting center showed crowds jeering him and one person throwing mud, and his wife Subhashree Ganguly later praised him on Instagram as a superhero.
- The BJP won a sweeping majority in West Bengal, with reports putting it at over 207 of 294 seats and the Trinamool Congress near 80.
- Governor R. N. Ravi dissolved the state assembly ahead of a May 9 swearing-in for the new government.