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Suvendu Adhikari, 1 of the main architects of the BJP’s emergence successful West Bengal, has been sworn successful arsenic the archetypal BJP Chief Minister of the State astatine a expansive ceremonial astatine Brigade Parade Grounds connected Saturday (May 9, 2026).
From spearheading protests implicit the alleged post-poll unit pursuing the 2021 Assembly elections to starring marches towards State Secretariat ‘Nabanna’ and mobilising cadres implicit issues of corruption, unemployment and instrumentality and order, Mr. Adhikari consistently positioned himself astatine the centre of the party’s governmental offensives.
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The elder BJP person was unanimously elected the person of the BJP Legislature Party successful the beingness of Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the party’s apical State leadership, paving the mode for him to go the archetypal BJP Chief Minister of West Bengal.
Below is simply a timeline of cardinal events successful his governmental career, from being a subordinate of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) to becoming the Chief Minister of West Bengal.
Early life
Born successful Karkuli colony successful Purba Medinipur territory to seasoned person Sisir Adhikari and Gayatri Adhikari, Mr. Adhikari’s formative years were marked by his superior and secondary acquisition astatine Contai High School, followed by an undergraduate grade successful Arts from Prabhat Kumar College successful the aforesaid region.
He aboriginal earned a Master’s grade successful History from Kolkata’s Rabindra Bharati University. This trajectory reinforced his representation arsenic a quintessential Bengali governmental fig whose emergence was forged not outside, but from wrong the heartland of the State itself.
Political beginnings
He began his governmental vocation successful the Congress’s pupil wing, Chhatra Parishad, during the highest of Left dominance successful Bengal politics. He was archetypal elected a Councillor of Kanthi Municipality successful 1995 and aboriginal joined the TMC aft Mamata Banerjee floated the enactment successful 1998.
His organisational skills helped the TMC consolidate its basal successful Purba Medinipur and situation the CPI(M)’s entrenched governmental machinery.
Political ascent with TMC and defection to BJP
Mr. Adhikari was Ms. Banerjee’s astir trusted wide during the Nandigram anti-land acquisition question successful 2007. He was aboriginal elected MP successful 2009 and again successful 2014. In the 2016 State Assembly election, helium was elected arsenic MLA from Nandigram and became a Minister successful the TMC Cabinet.
As acold arsenic acquisition successful State medication is concerned, Mr. Adhikari happens to beryllium the astir conversant of BJP leaders successful the State, who functioned arsenic Minister of Transport from May 2016 to November 2020 and besides a Minister of the Environment Department from 2018 to 2020 successful the earstwhile Mamata Banerjee Cabinet.
Mr. Adhikari switched to the BJP successful December 2020 up of the 2021 Assembly polls, dramatically altering Bengal’s governmental landscape.
Election triumph and leadership
In the 2021 elections, helium defeated Ms. Banerjee successful the high-profile Nandigram contention by a constrictive borderline of 1,956 votes and emerged arsenic the look of the BJP’s assertive absorption authorities successful the State arsenic the Leader of the Opposition successful the Assembly.
Five years later, Mr. Adhikari dealt different symbolic stroke to Ms. Banerjee by defeating her successful Bhabanipur by implicit 15,000 votes, considered the TMC chief’s governmental stronghold, arsenic the BJP stormed to power.
In the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections, the BJP secured 207 seats, portion the TMC won 80 seats, marking an extremity to its 15-year regularisation successful the State and echoing the tone of ‘Poriborton’.
Mr. Adhikari’s elevation arsenic Chief Minister marks the culmination of a governmental travel spanning the Congress, the TMC, and present the BJP, a travel that has placed him astatine the helm of Bengal’s archetypal saffron government
(With PTI and ANI inputs)
