‘Making herself a laughing stock’: BJP flays Mamata Banerjee for refusing to resign after West Bengal poll loss | India News

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party has questioned Mamata Banerjee’s “will not resign” comment saying she was free to approach the Supreme Court over any irregularities alleged by the outgoing West Bengal chief minister. Banerjee accused the EC of colluding with the BJP after the saffron party won the Bengal elections and refused to comply with the verdict.“He is just making himself a laughing stock,” he said, adding that he is free to approach the Supreme Court over the election results, said state BJP spokesman Devjit Sarkar.Questioning the legitimacy of such comments, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said it was an attack on “democracy and the Constitution”.“It is alarming because there is a beauty in India’s democracy that since independence there has not arisen a situation where two parties engage each other like this. With great respect, with dignity, when a chief minister or prime minister loses, the party that loses, they resign and the transfer of power has always been in a peaceful manner in India for the last 75 years.”“But today, with what Mamata Banerjee has said and done, I am sad to say that this tradition of India has been hurt. This is not an attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party; it is an attack on democracy. It is an attack on the Constitution of India, the Constitution of Babasaheb Ambedkar. However, that is not to say that Mamata Banerjee will not resign.” Entitlement and Anarchy This is a story of disorder and entitlement,” he adds. Subvendu Adhikari, who defeated Mamata from Bhavanipur, also reacted to her statement, saying, “Everything is mentioned in the constitution. I don’t need to say more.”Mamata Banerjee refused to accept the verdict of the Bengal elections where the TMC was defeated by the BJP, with the saffron party winning 207 seats. He said he would not resign as his party “did not lose the election”, but it was an attempt by the BJP and the EC to “defeat us”.“I won’t resign, I didn’t lose, I won’t go to Raj Bhavan…the question doesn’t arise. No. Now I also want to say that we didn’t lose the election. This is their attempt to defeat us. Formally, they can defeat us through the Election Commission, but morally we won the election.” Mamata Banerjee said this at a press conference in Kolkata.