Not just Mamata, nearly entire cabinet falls: 22 TMC ministers defeated in Bengal setback

The Bharatiya Janata Party's sweep in West Bengal has not just unseated the Trinamool Congress - it has dismantled its leadership. Out of 35 ministers in the Mamata Banerjee government who contested the 2026 Assembly elections, 22 have lost, including the chief minister herself in Bhabanipur. 

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Nearly 63% of the cabinet failed to retain their seats, a sign of a huge anti-incumbency that resulted in direct rejection of the ruling leadership.

The BJP won 206 seats, securing a two-thirds majority and ending the TMC's 15-year rule. The result carried added weight with Banerjee's defeat to BJP's Suvendu Adhikari in a high-stakes contest that flipped after early trends.

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Ministers handling key departments - including housing, power, education, industry, transport, irrigation and backward classes - have all been defeated.

Among those who lost are Aroop Biswas in Tollygunge, Bratya Basu in Dum Dum, Chandrima Bhattacharya in Dum Dum Uttar and Shashi Panja in Shyampukur. 

Udayan Guha lost in Dinhata, Manas Ranjan Bhunia in Sabang, and Moloy Ghatak in Asansol Uttar. In Kolkata, BJP's Purnima Chakraborty defeated industry minister Shashi Panja, signalling cracks even in urban pockets.

The defeats were not isolated. They stretched from Kolkata to North Bengal and into rural belts, cutting through what had been the party’s administrative and organisational backbone.

From a marginal vote share of around 4% in 2011, the BJP climbed to nearly 40% in 2019, emerged as the principal challenger in 2021, and has now crossed roughly 45% to convert that growth into power. The TMC’s vote share has dropped from 48% in 2021 to about 40.94%.

For the first time since 1972, West Bengal is set to be governed by a party that is also in power at the Centre - marking a decisive political shift. 

The verdict marks a collapse of the incumbent leadership - from the chief minister to the cabinet - in one of the most sweeping electoral rejections in the state's recent history.

List of TMC Ministers Who Lost	Portfolios	Constiteuncies
Mamata Banerjee	Chief Minister	Bhabanipur
Aroop Biswas	Housing, Power	Tollygunge
Bratya Basu	Higher Education, School Education	Dum Dum
Chandrima Bhattacharya	Environment, Finance, Programme Monitoring	Dum Dum Uttar
Shashi Panja	Industry, Commerce & Enterprises	Shyampukur
Sujit Bose	Fire and Emergency Services	Bidhannagar
Indranil Sen	Technical Education, Training & Skill Development; Tourism	Chandannagar
Becharam Manna	Agricultural Marketing	Singur
Swapan Debnath	Animal Resources Development	Purbasthali Dakshin
Bulu Chik Baraik	Backward Classes Welfare, Tribal Development	Mal
Pradip Kr. Mazumdar	Co-operation, Panchayats & Rural Development	Durgapur Purba
Birbaha Hansda	Forests, Self-Help Group & Self Employment	Binpur
Manas Ranjan Bhunia	Irrigation & Waterways	Sabang
Moloy Ghatak	Labour	Asansol Uttar
Siddiqullah Choudhury	Mass Education Extension and Library Services	Monteswar
Udayan Guha	North Bengal Development	Dinhata
Sandhyarani Tudu	Paschimanchal Unnayan Affairs	Manbazar
Bankim Chandra Hazra	Sundarban Affairs	Sagar
Ujjal Biswas	Science & Technology and Bio-Technology	Krishnanagar Dakshin
Snehasis Chakraborty	Transport	Jangipara
Srikant Mahato	MoS-Consumer Affairs	Salboni
Satyajit Barman	MoS- School Education	Hemtabad