'Dismiss Her If...': Himanta Biswa Sarma On Mamata Banerjee's 'Won't Resign' Move

Last Updated:May 06, 2026, 08:03 IST

The Assam Chief Minister's reaction came after Mamata Banerjee, who lost the state elections to BJP on Monday, refused to tender her resignation.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has asked to dismiss Mamata Banerjee after she said that she will not resign from the post of Chief Minister following her loss in the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly elections. Sarma further added that Bengal has tolerated her for too long despite her multiple omissions and commissions.

“If she doesn’t resign, she will be dismissed. The country doesn’t run according to her whims. The Governor will wait for a certain period, and after that, she will be dismissed – it is as simple as that," Sarma was quoted as saying by NDTV.

“The results are out; the election outcome has been declared. You are saying 100 seats were snatched from you? Well, then I could also say that the 19 seats won by Congress were snatched from me; I should have received 126. That’s not how a country operates," he added.

The Assam Chief Minister’s reaction came after Banerjee, who lost the state elections to BJP on Monday, refused to tender her resignation, insisting that her party had not lost the mandate and alleging that the verdict had been “looted".

“I have not lost, so I will not go to Raj Bhavan. I will not tender resignation," Banerjee had said.

Mamata Refuses To Resign

Banerjee claimed that the BJP’s mandate was the result of manipulation, reiterating her charge that nearly 100 seats had been “stolen" in the election from her party, the Trinamool Congress.

Escalating her attack, Banerjee accused the central government and the Election Commission of India of acting in concert.

“This is not how democracy works. When the judiciary is not there, when the Election Commission is biased and the government wants one-party rule, a wrong message goes out to the world," she said.

The BJP has won 206 of the 293 seats in Bengal. The Trinamool won 80 seats — less than half of its massive score of 215 seats in 2021.

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