India, May 5 -- Outgoing CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the Election Commission of India, calling it a "villain" a day after the Bharatiya Janata Party scripted a historic landslide victory in the West Bengal Assembly elections.

Refusing to resign, Banerjee asserted that her party's fight was not against the BJP but against the Election Commission.

"If I had lost, I would have resigned. But if anyone thinks I will step down under pressure, that is not going to happen," she said, addressing a press conference in Kolkata.

"We did not lose the election. It was a forceful attempt to defeat us," she said.

"It is sad to say that the Chief Election Commissioner became the villain of this election, looting the dem...