Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Saturday urged occasion candidates who contested the just lately concluded West Bengal meeting elections to rebuild the organisation from the bottom up after the occasion suffered its worst electoral setback in years.

Addressing a gathering at her Kalighat residence in Kolkata, attended by TMC nationwide basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee, the West Bengal chief minister struck a defiant tone regardless of the occasion’s dramatic fall from energy to the opposition benches.

Banerjee additionally made it clear that leaders wishing to depart the Trinamool Congress had been free to take action, asserting that the occasion would get better and reorganise itself regardless of the crushing defeat.

‘I Will Rebuild the Social gathering Afresh’: Mamata

Mamata requested leaders and staff who remained loyal to deal with reviving the occasion construction on the grassroots degree.

“Those that are leaving for different events, allow them to go. I’ll rebuild the occasion afresh,” Banerjee reportedly stated in the course of the assembly.

She additionally urged occasion staff to revive broken or deserted occasion workplaces throughout the state. “To those that are staying, I say rebuild the broken occasion workplaces, paint them and reopen them. If wanted, I too will paint them. Trinamool Congress won’t ever bow down. Individuals’s mandate has been looted,” she stated. 

At the moment, our Hon’ble Chairperson @MamataOfficial and our Hon’ble Nationwide Normal Secretary @abhishekaitc met with our contesting candidates, at Kalighat.

They fought with unmatched braveness regardless of dealing with unimaginable atrocities and relentless intimidation.

The Trinamool Congress… pic.twitter.com/u4Of6S1D4l

— All India Trinamool Congress (@AITCofficial) May 15, 2026

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TMC Decreased to Opposition Benches

The remarks got here days after the TMC suffered a surprising reversal within the meeting elections, ending its lengthy spell because the ruling occasion in West Bengal.

Out of the state’s 294 meeting seats, the Trinamool Congress managed to safe victory in solely 80 constituencies.

Mamata Banerjee herself misplaced from Bhabanipur, a constituency extensively considered her political stronghold, including to the symbolic weight of the defeat.

A number of Senior Leaders Misplaced Elections

The TMC had fielded candidates in 291 seats whereas leaving three seats within the Darjeeling hills for ally Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM), led by Anit Thapa.

Of the 291 TMC candidates, solely 80 emerged victorious, whereas 211 misplaced their contests. The defeats included a number of senior leaders and ministers, marking one of many occasion’s most troublesome electoral performances since coming to energy.

The assembly at Kalighat was organised amid rising experiences of dissatisfaction inside occasion ranks and hypothesis that some leaders may swap to rival political camps after the defeat.

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Mamata Repeats Earlier Warning on Defections

Saturday’s feedback echoed Mamata Banerjee’s remarks made shortly after the election outcomes had been introduced earlier this month.

Addressing a press convention on Could 5, she had acknowledged that defections from the occasion had been seemingly within the aftermath of the loss.

“I do know many will depart for different events. They could have their very own compulsions. I’ve nothing to say about that. Whoever needs to go might go. I don’t consider in forcibly holding anybody again,” she had stated.

Later, the TMC’s official X deal with shared pictures from Saturday’s assembly and praised occasion candidates for his or her efforts in the course of the marketing campaign. The put up additionally repeated the occasion’s allegation that the electoral mandate had been “stolen”, a cost repeatedly raised by TMC leaders following the ballot outcomes.