Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s decision not to resign can only be handled in one way — dismiss her, said Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today. Bengal, he added, 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 told NDTV’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Rahul Kanwal during an exclusive interview today.
“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.
Banerjee, who lost the state to BJP yesterday after three consecutive terms in power, refused to tender her resignation today, creating an unprecedented situation. “I have not lost, so I will not go to Raj Bhavan. I will not tender resignation,” she told reporters at a
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