Overview
- At a closed-door meeting Wednesday, Mamata Banerjee told TMC MLAs she will not resign and said the party will challenge the results in court, calling the outcome a product of counting manipulation.
- The state’s Chief Electoral Officer has delivered the official gazette of winners to Governor R. N. Ravi, a step that enables the Governor to ask the largest party to form the next government.
- The current Assembly’s five-year term ends May 7, which means the outgoing council can only function in a caretaker role until the Governor installs a new administration.
- BJP leaders say they plan a swearing-in at Kolkata’s Brigade Parade Grounds on Saturday, while the TMC set up disciplinary and fact-finding panels and acknowledged that 9 of its 80 MLAs skipped the post-poll meeting.
- Tensions rose over reports of post-poll unrest, as the BJP alleged TMC workers posed as BJP supporters to incite violence, and internal critics like former minister Manoj Tiwary accused TMC leaders of mismanagement and corruption, citing the chaotic 2025 Lionel Messi event as an example.