After setback in Lok Sabha polls, Mamata Banerjee calls emergency meeting
Kolkata, May 25 (IBNS): After receiving a rude shock from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Lok Sabha polls, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee called an emergency meeting at her Kalighat residence in south Kolkata on Saturday.
The meeting will be attended by all TMC candidates who fought the polls along with other party leaders. Banerjee is likely to analyse the poll results and also make a future map of her party, media reports said.
Making a deep inroad in West Bengal, the BJP won 18 seats, the party's best performance so far in Banerjee's citadel. The TMC, which had given a call to win all 42 Lok Sabha seats, came down sharply from its earlier tally of 34 seats to 22.
Not just the number of seats, the BJP is challenging the TMC hard by increasing its vote share from 17 per cent to over 40 per cent in the current polls, which ended on May 19.
In the battle which turned out to be between the TMC and BJP in West Bengal, the Left, which ruled the state for 34 years, failed to open its account with a mere vote share of seven per cent.
The Congress too lost a couple of seats to bring down its tally to two.
The BJP's gain is significant as the assembly polls in the state are just two years away.
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