'Let them dismiss me, won't resign': Defiant Mamata tells new TMC MLAs to wear black

NEW DELHI: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) convened a gathering of its recently elected MLAs and elder leaders astatine Kalighat connected Wednesday successful Kolkata. Party main and West Bengal main curate Mamata Banerjee, on with the party's nationalist wide caput Abhishek Banerjee, addressed the gathering to illustration the party’s people pursuing its electoral setback.Addressing the meeting, the outgoing main curate Mamata Banerjee struck a defiant tone, asserting her intent to proceed successful bureau portion calling for a symbolic protest. She said that she would not beryllium resigning from the CM presumption and alternatively hold for the governor's dismissal. Urging her enactment members to transportation retired a protestation against what she claimed to beryllium a "black day," she asked them to deterioration achromatic apparel connected the archetypal time of the West Bengal assembly.“After the Bengal INDIA squad is agreed now. I won’t resign. Let them disregard me. I privation this to beryllium a achromatic day. We person to beryllium strong. On the archetypal time of the Assembly, deterioration achromatic clothes. Those who betrayed volition beryllium removed from the party. I americium laughing. I defeated them morally. I americium a escaped bird. I worked for all. We mightiness person lost, but we volition fight. HM and PM are straight involved,” she said, quality bureau ANI reported, citing TMC sources.

She besides alleged wide malpractice and intimidation during the elections, claiming that respective enactment functionaries were targeted.“Those who mislaid were forcefully defeated. I condemn West Bengal Police, CRPF, BJP-minded Chief Electoral Officer and ECI. More than 1500 enactment offices were hijacked. I was heckled and pushed. I was having thorax pain. This was not an predetermination but an atrocity,” Banerjee said during the meeting, sources added.Following the meeting, the enactment posted astir it connected its authoritative X account. In a station connected X, it said the Kalighat gathering aimed astatine motivating its enactment cadre. It stated that Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee “instilled successful them clarity, confidence, conviction, and a renewed consciousness of intent to proceed the bully fight.”The connection said, "Our Chairperson Mamata Banerjee and National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee addressed a gathering with our leaders successful Kalighat, instilling successful them clarity, confidence, conviction, and a renewed consciousness of intent to proceed the bully fight. Whether successful powerfulness oregon not, our committedness to service the radical of Bengal remains steadfast. We volition proceed to basal by them and defy BJP’s tyranny and oppression bony and nail."

According to the statement, the gathering focused connected reinforcing unity, responding to alleged irregularities during the polls, and outlining the party’s governmental strategy going forward.The TMC further asserted that it would proceed to reason what it described arsenic “BJP’s tyranny and oppression bony and nail,” signalling an assertive absorption relation adjacent arsenic it regroups aft the predetermination outcome.