West Bengal Election Result 2026 Highlights: EC directs CS, DGP to ensure zero post-poll violence

West Bengal Election Result 2026 LIVE: Bengal CEO Manoj Kumar Agarwal said “nothing specific” as he refuted Mamata Banerjee's allegations of EVM tampering and assault.

“We cannot answer if there is nothing specific. What were these machines? What tables were these on? What Assembly seat was it? How can we answer if these specifications are not clear?”

West Bengal Election Result 2026 LIVE: ECI directs Chief Secretary, DGP and CAPFs in West Bengal to ensure Zero Tolerance towards post-poll violence by anyone in West Bengal.

West Bengal Election Result 2026 LIVE: Abhishek Banerjee has challenged @ECISVEEP to release the complete CCTV footage from 100 specific assembly constituencies for the entire day, with particular focus on the six hours between 12 PM and 6 PM.

He has further stated that he is more than willing to produce credible, documented evidence before the media proving that the serial numbers of EVMs brought in for counting did not match Form 17C.

West Bengal Election Result 2026 LIVE: Earlier, BJP State President Samik Bhattacharya was quoted as saying that the BJP would run the administration from the Writers' Building. He said that the BJP had maintained back in 2021 that if the party comes to power, it would run the government from the Writers' Building.

West Bengal Election Result 2026 LIVE: On the Chief Minister face, BJP MLA-elect Dilip Ghosh said, "We have 208 MLAs. Anyone among them can be the Chief Minister. There is no dearth of workers in the BJP. All of them are experienced. The decision by the party will be supreme. Everyone will work together towards providing good governance."

West Bengal Election Result 2026 LIVE: On CM Mamata Banerjee's "I will not resign, I did not lose" statement, BJP MLA-elect Suvendu Adhikari said, “Everything is mentioned in the Constitution. I need not say much.”

West Bengal Election Result 2026 LIVE: On CM Mamata Banerjee's "I will not resign, I did not lose" statement, TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee said that Mamata Banerjee had not been working as the chief minister for the past three months since Chief Secretary was running the government.

"So, what is the question of resignation?" he asked.

He further says, "A 'chori' happened in counting this time. That is final. All candidates were brutally assaulted. All counting agents were brutally assaulted and thrown out by the CISF and CRPF...It is a great threat to democracy...There is no transparency in counting...It is a brutal attack on democracy. They have looted everything in the counting."

West Bengal Election Result 2026 LIVE: The term of the 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly ends on May 7, 2026, marking the end of Mamata Banerjee's five-year tenure that began in 2021.

This means that after May 7, Mamata Banerjee cease to be a chief minister.

To continue the office, Mamata Banerjee will have to prove the majority in the Assembly. In the case of West Bengal, the majority officially lies with the Bharatiya Janata Party which has won 207 seats in the state Assembly, while the TMC was wrapped up on 80 seats. Read here

"Sonia ji, Rahul Gandhi, Arvind Kejriwal, Uddhav Thackeray, Akhilesh Yadav, Tejashwi Yadav, Hemant Soren rang me up. All the allies of INDIA Alliance told me that they are totally and absolutely with me. I think our solidarity will be united and strong for the next days. Akhilesh requested me if he can come today itself but I told him to come tomorrow. So, he will come tomorrow. One by one everyone will come. My target is very clear. I will strengthen the INDIA team, just like a small person. I don't have any chair now, so I am a commoner. So, you cannot tell me that I am using your chair. I am now a free bird. I gave my entire life in service to the people, even in these 15 years I have not withdrawn one paisa of pension. I am not taking one paisa of salary also. But now, I am a free bird. So, I have to do some work, that I will manage to do," Banerjee said in a presser.

West Bengal Election Result 2026 LIVE: Former India cricketer and outgoing Trinamool Congress MLA Manoj Tiwary on Tuesday said the "TMC chapter is over" for him, alleging that the party denied him a ticket from Howrah's Shibpur constituency for refusing to pay ₹five crore.

"Only those who could pay hefty money could buy tickets. At least 70-72 candidates this time paid around ₹five crore to get a ticket. I was asked but I refused to pay. Just check how many of those who paid up have managed to win," he said.

West Bengal Election Result 2026 LIVE: As the BJP sunk Mamata Banerjee with a landslide win, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said it was a victory for the country.

“Bengal's victory is a victory for the country. The anti-national activities that were taking place in Bengal, the whole of India and North India felt insecure because of West Bengal, the borders were open, and criminal activities were openly taking place. Wherever you committed a crime, you could run away and find safe haven in Bengal,” he said.

Rekha Gupta claimed that now ‘women in Bengal have been able to stand up against atrocities’

On BJP's victory in West Bengal, Gupta says, "…Women in Bengal have been able to stand up against atrocities. In this voting, a government of good governance has been formed in Bengal. This will make the future of Bengal brighter... This is the victory of women... This is paving the way for a developed India."

BJP president Nitin Nabin on Tuesday offered prayers at the Kalibari temple in Chittranjan Park in south Delhi, a day after his party registered a massive victory in West Bengal and Assam polls.

"I have come to pay obeisance for the victory of the party in the pious lands of Maa Kali and Maa Kamakhya," he said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been working as "Rashtra Nayak" and "Pradhan Sewak" for development and conserving the heritage and culture of the country, he said,

As some Congress members seem to be gloating about TMC's loss

"Some in the Congress, and others, are gloating about TMC's loss.They need to understand this clearly - the theft of Assam and Bengal's mandate is a big step forward by the BJP in its mission to destroy Indian democracy," Gandhi said in a post on X.

"Put petty politics aside. This is not about one party or another. This is about India," he said in his post.

In the hills, the TMC, or even its allies there, failed to leave a footprint in the four districts of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri, and Alipurduar that had 18 seats.

The BJP bagged 40 of the 54 assembly seats in the entire north Bengal, slashing the Trinamool's tally from its earlier 23 seats to just 14.

With all hill seats now in the BJP's kitty, the buzz around the future of the Gorkha Territorial Administration (GTA), the Mamata Banerjee-backed semi-autonomous hill administrative body, has reached its crescendo.

West Bengal BJP President Samik Bhattacharya said if any member of BJP engages in poll violence, then they will be expelled from the party

says, "...At some places, people carried the BJP flag and engaged in vandalism. We condemn this. We want to make it clear that if anyone does such a thing, we will be compelled to expel them from the party... Celebrations were held across the country for West Bengal... Now we face very big challenges ahead. We are moving forward with those. We want to tell our workers to stay peaceful and not hurt anyone's sentiments..."

In a major political moment, BJP candidate Ratna Debnath has secured a decisive victory by a substantial margin of 28,836 votes in the Panihati constituency, a seat that has been held by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) since 2011.

According to the final results after all 13 rounds of EVM counting, Debnath polled 87,977 votes, comfortably defeating Tirthankar Ghosh of the All India Trinamool Congress, who managed 59,141 votes.