“Those that are leaving for different events, allow them to go. I’ll rebuild the social gathering afresh. To those that are staying, I say rebuild the broken social gathering places of work, 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,” Banerjee was quoted as saying by social gathering sources.

The remarks got here days after the TMC was decreased from the ruling social gathering to the opposition benches following a dramatic reversal in electoral fortunes.

Of the 294 meeting seats within the state, the social gathering managed to win solely 80.

Mamata Banerjee herself suffered defeat in Bhabanipur, lengthy thought of her political bastion.

The TMC had fielded candidates in 291 seats, leaving three seats within the Darjeeling hills to its ally Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM) led by Anit Thapa. Of those, solely 80 candidates emerged victorious, whereas 211 misplaced, together with a number of heavyweight leaders and ministers.

The assembly at Kalighat was convened for candidates who had contested the elections on the social gathering’s ticket amid stories of inside discontent and hypothesis over doable defections after the electoral debacle.

The assembly echoed Banerjee’s remarks made a day after the outcomes had been declared. Addressing a press convention on Might 5, the social gathering supremo had stated she was conscious that some leaders would possibly change camps.

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

The TMC’s official X deal with later posted images of the assembly and praised the contesting candidates for his or her battle in the course of the election marketing campaign.

“Right this 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 stands united as one household. We are going to by no means bow earlier than those that loot the folks’s mandate. Reality will prevail,” the social gathering posted on X on Friday.

The publish additionally reiterated the social gathering’s cost that the electoral mandate had been “stolen”, a declare repeatedly raised by TMC leaders after the ballot outcomes.

Get together insiders stated Banerjee used the assembly to spice up the morale of candidates who had contested the polls and ship a message of unity amid a troublesome section for the organisation.