KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday filed an election petition before the Calcutta High Court, challenging the poll result in the Bhabanipur assembly seat, which she lost to BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari.
Adhikari, who later became the chief minister, defeated Banerjee by a margin of 15,105 votes in the seat.
TMC sources said that Banerjee went to the high court registry to “affirm” the petition challenging the result.
The former chief minister did not reply to reporters’ questions when she left the high court premises.
Counting of votes of the West Bengal assembly election was held on May 4.
After the saffron party’s resounding victory in the West Bengal Assembly polls, Adhikari went on to become the first BJP chief minister of the state.
Following her defeat to Adhikari in the 2021 assembly election in Nandigram constituency, Banerjee filed an election petition against the BJP leader.
The matter is pending before the Calcutta High Court.
The TMC chief had won the Bhabanipur assembly seat in a bypoll in 2021 after party MLA Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay vacated the seat to facilitate her election and retain her position as the chief minister of West Bengal.
PTI