Kolkata, May 5 -- At least four persons were killed in alleged post-poll clashes across West Bengal in the past 24 hours after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ousted the 15-year-old Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in a bitterly contested election.

While two BJP workers were killed in New Town in North 24 Parganas and Udaynarayanpur in Howrah, the TMC said that two party members were killed in Beleghata in Kolkata and Nanoor in Birbhum.

The BJP swept the state assembly elections on Monday, winning 207 seats while the TMC bagged 80 in the 294-seat assembly. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee lost in Bhabanipur to BJP's CM contender, Suvendu Adhikari; out of 35 state government ministers who contested the polls, 22 were defeated.

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