Mamata Banerjee offers to quit as West Bengal CM, party rejects the request

'I told my party it is very difficult to continue as chief minister', said Banerjee

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee offered to resign on Saturday, days after the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) shocker in the Lok Sabha elections.

Addressing a press conference after the party’s internal review meeting, Banerjee said, “I told my party it is very difficult to continue as chief minister, and offered to resign. But my party has not accepted it.”

“I have resigned from many chairs. It is my party symbol that matters.”  Banerjee, who is also Trinamool Congress chief, said for the past six months, she had not been allowed to work. “It was like an Emergency situation. I was the