Mamata Banerjee's defeat to the Bharatiya Janata Party marked the end of her 15-year reign as West Bengal's chief minister, plunging her political future into uncertainty and raising questions about her ability to reinvent herself as an opposition leader amid the BJP's dominance. #IndianPolitics #WomenInLeadership #PoliticalChange #IN #BJ
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Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal election results 2026: India's fiercest female politician faces a fight for survival
For 15 years, Mamata Banerjee and her regional Trinamool Congress (TMC) party seemed to embody a political law of India's West Bengal state: they always found a way to survive.