Kolkata/New Delhi, May 6 -- : Outgoing West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee declared on Tuesday that she won't resign from the position despite losing a landslide election to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a day before, but experts said her dramatic declaration meant little constitutionally and was more a political stunt.

Banerjee's defiant stance came on a day BJP leaders said the new government was likely to be sworn in on May 9, two days after the term of the old assembly expires, and coinciding with the birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore. The new state government secretariat is likely to return to Writers' Buildings after functioning from the Banerjee-built Nabanna across the Hoogly for 13 years.

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