Storming to power in West Bengal for the first time, the BJP handed a crushing defeat to the incumbent Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC), decisively ending its 15-year rule. A defiant Mamata refused to concede defeat, alleging that the BJP-led Centre and the Election Commission (EC) orchestrated the “loot of votes” to seal the fate of her party, declining to resign as the chief minister. While reaching out to the Opposition INDIA alliance, Mamata also signalled her plan to return to her role as a “street fighter Opposition leader” which had powered the TMC to end the 34-year rule of the CPM-led Left Front in 2011. “I am now a free bird. I was on the streets once and I will be there again,” the TMC supremo declared. Clearly, she is set to get into her protest mode against the BJP now.…