West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026 | Governor dismisses state assembly; Mamata sticks to her decision not to resign

Kolkata: Even as Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee refused to resign from the office of the chief minister of West Bengal, Governor R N Ravi dissolved the state’s legislative assembly on Thursday, clearing the way for the constitution of the new assembly and the new Bharatiya Janata Party’s government to take over.

The Lok Bhavan in Kolkata stated in a press release that the Governor had exercised his powers under Sub Clause B of Clause 2 of Article 174 of the Constitution of India to issue an order dissolving the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, and the order had come into force.

The governor issued the order a day after the state’s Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Agarwal submitted to him the notification regarding the constitution of the new legislative assembly.

The BJP had a landslide victory against the TMC in the just-concluded assembly elections in West Bengal.

But Mamata on Tuesday and Wednesday said that she would not resign from the office of West Bengal chief minister, as the BJP’s victory was the result of a conspiracy by the saffron party and the Election Commission, but not a mandate of the people. She alleged that the BJP had ‘looted’ at least 100 seats from the TMC with the help of the Election Commission.

She said that she would not resign and would rather be sacked from the office of the chief minister by the governor.

The newly elected 207 BJP legislators will hold a meeting in Kolkata on Friday and elect the legislative party’s leader, who would take over as the chief minister of the new government at a public rally in Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata on Saturday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, as well as many of the chief ministers of other states ruled by the BJP, will attend the ceremony.