Mamata Banerjee calls TMC emergency meeting to review Lok Sabha poll debacle

The party suffered a major debacle after the BJP snatched surprisingly 18 seats, sixteen more than 2014, with more than 40 per cent vote share.

The BJP virtually made a sweeping victory in north Bengal as well as rural south Bengal.

The TMC, ruling the state from 2011, had record 34 seats in 2014 parliament poll, and is now reduced to 22 seats, while the Congress managed to win only two from 4.

The CPI(M) led Left Front drew blank for the first time in decades. The party had 2 MPs in the dissolved Lok Sabha.

West Bengal has total 42 Lok Sabha seats.

Ms Banerjee called all the winners as well as the losers in the emergency convened meeting, which is expected to do an autopsy of the elections and their results.

All the top party functionaries have been invited to attend the meeting, party sources said.

The meeting will be held around 4 pm at her Kalighat residence in south Kolkata.

TMC also lost five assembly seats out of eight Assembly seats bypoll.

BJP won four, TMC 3 and Congress 1.

Banerjee, who has not been officially communicating since Thursday morning, during poll campaign was claiming that TMC would win all 42 seats and would be a deciding factory in the making of a new government in New Delhi.

But the results, in which the BJP increased its nine-fold seats in Bengal and earned a massive mandate for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, dashed all her hopes and expectations.

Banerjee officially communicated to public on Thursday last through her Twitter account.

" Congratulations to the winners. But all losers are not losers. We have to do a complete review and then we will share our views with you all. Let the counting process be completed fully and the VVPATs
matched."

But since then she has not been communicating though her Twitter account.

The AITC website has also not been updated since May 20.