West Bengal government formation LIVE: Suvendu, Agnimitra Paul among frontrunners to be Bengal CM

The current West Bengal assembly is set to dissolve automatically on May 7, and the Election Commission has notified new assemblies for Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.

Mamata Banerjee thanked INDIA bloc leaders and said she would work with them; she indicated that Akhilesh Yadav would meet her the following day (May 7).

Security arrangements outside the residences of outgoing chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee were scaled down, as reported.

Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal is likely to brief governor RN Ravi on May 6 after the Election Commission notified new assemblies for five states including West Bengal.

Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to visit West Bengal on Thursday evening as part of the party's engagements after the victory; he is expected to attend a cabinet expansion oath-taking ceremony in Bihar before heading to West Bengal.

The BJP won 207 seats and the Trinamool Congress 80 in the West Bengal assembly elections, marking the first time BJP forms government in the state; the results also highlighted Narendra Modi as the first sitting Prime Minister to win West Bengal since Jawaharlal Nehru.

BJP Bengal chief announced that the oath ceremony for the new chief minister would be held on May 9, Rabindranath Tagore's birthday, at Writers’ Buildings.

Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar called on Mamata Banerjee to gracefully accept defeat.

Agnimitra Paul, BJP candidate from Asansol Dakshin, won the seat with a margin of over 40,000 votes, according to the Election Commission of India. Paul previously served as a Lok Sabha MP from 2019 to 2024.

Trinamool Congress released a video alleging a bulldozer mowing down a shop in Kolkata's New Market area, with claims of BJP supporters vandalising shops and the TMC party office.

Biplab Kumar Deb stated it would be incorrect to claim that the Bharatiya Janata Party benefited from the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, arguing the voter list revision was implemented across five states.

The BJP Parliamentary Board appointed Home Minister Amit Shah as the central observer for the election of the West Bengal chief minister, with Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi as co-observer.

Mamata Banerjee announced on Tuesday that she would not resign as West Bengal chief minister, claiming she had not lost and that there was a 'forceful attempt' to defeat her and her Trinamool Congress party.