Has Mamata Banerjee accepted defeat? What does her new X resume say?

Less than a week ago, Mamata insisted she would not resign despite the BJP’s landslide victory in the state.“I will not resign. Let them sack me,” Banerjee said, urging party workers to celebrate “Black Day” during the first session of the new Parliament. She also asked TMC legislators to wear black clothes inside the House as a mark of protest.Also Read | From Dilip Ghosh to Agni Mitra Paul – What the BJP’s first West Bengal cabinet looked likeBanerjee has alleged massive electoral fraud and accused the BJP, Election Commission, CRPF and police departments of targeting her party during the polls. “This is not an election, this is an atrocity,” she said, while also claiming that more than 1,500 TMC offices were “hijacked”.The TMC later said the purpose of the Kalighat meeting was to prepare the party for its role in the opposition benches and reiterated that it would continue to fight “tyranny and oppression of the BJP” with all its might.Suvendu Adhikari was sworn in as the state’s first BJP chief minister since independence on Saturday. Governor RN Ravi administered the oath at a grand ceremony in Kolkata in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and senior leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party.Also Read |‘I bow to West Bengal Jana Shakti’: PM Modi kowtows in front of Kolkata crowd as BJP forms first governmentAdhikari’s rise marks a symbolic reversal in Bengali politics. He was once one of Banerjee’s closest lieutenants and a key architect of the Nandigram movement that helped end the Left Front’s rule in 2007, before defecting to the BJP in 2020 amid growing tensions with the TMC leadership. In the 2026 assembly elections, he defeated the TMC in both Nandigram and Babanipur, while the BJP won 207 seats, ending the party’s 15-year rule in the state.