CM Suvendu begins first North Bengal tour, promises to fulfill region's developmental aspirations

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West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari. File representation   (X/@BJP_WB)

West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari. File representation (X/@BJP_WB)

In his maiden sojourn to North Bengal aft becoming the Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari connected Wednesday (May 20, 2026) said helium volition enactment to fulfil the developmental aspirations of the radical of the region.

Acknowledging the enactment of the region's radical for the BJP, Mr. Adhikari said helium volition sojourn northbound Bengal each period on with different Ministers of his cabinet.

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"We volition enactment towards fulfilling each the promises made successful our 'Sankalpa Patra' (poll manifesto) and those by Prime Minister Narendra Modi," Mr. Adhikari told reporters connected reaching Bagdogra airdrome from Kolkata.

He said the BJP authorities volition instrumentality the "debt of northbound Bengal's people", who, helium said, person been supporting the saffron enactment since 2009.

"The BJP authorities volition enactment towards giving northbound Bengal its developmental dues to erase the deprivation meted retired to the portion earlier," helium said.

The North Bengal Development Minister volition clasp bureau successful Siliguri 1 time each week, Adhikari said, with the curate successful complaint of the department, Nisith Pramanik, successful tow.

North Bengal has been a BJP bastion for rather immoderate years now, and the radical of the portion anticipation for immoderate caller announcements for the portion by Mr. Adhikari successful his archetypal sojourn aft taking oath arsenic Chief Minister connected May 9, a section saffron enactment person said.

Women successful accepted reddish and achromatic sarees blowing conch shells, and men beating 'dhaks' (drums) lined the streets done which CM Adhikari passed aft landing astatine Bagdogra airport.

Mr. Adhikari volition sojourn the Siliguri BJP office, wherever helium volition conscionable enactment workers and leaders.

The Chief Minister is scheduled to clasp an administrative reappraisal gathering astatine Uttarkanya, the northbound Bengal limb of the State Secretariat, an authoritative said.

The BJP won 40 of the 54 Assembly constituencies successful northbound Bengal successful the precocious concluded elections, surpassing the erstwhile grounds of 30 seats successful the 2021 polls.

Published - May 20, 2026 01:04 p.m. IST

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