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Suvendu Adhikari was connected Friday (May 8, 2026) elected the person of the BJP legislature enactment successful West Bengal, and volition instrumentality oath arsenic the archetypal BJP Chief Minister of West Bengal. The determination was taken astatine the BJP legislature gathering successful Kolkata successful the beingness of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
Mr. Adhikari volition beryllium sworn successful arsenic the Chief Minister of Bengal connected Saturday (May 9, 2026) astatine the Brigade Parade Ground successful Kolkata.
Mr. Shah, who presided implicit BJP legislature enactment gathering said that each the proposals were received successful favour of Suvendu Adhikari.
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Mr. Adhikari, 57, contested and won from some Nandigram and Bhabanipur seats successful the precocious concluded assembly polls. He defeated erstwhile Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from Bhabanipur by a borderline of 15, 115 votes.
He is each acceptable to instrumentality oath arsenic the CM connected Saturday (May 9) astatine Brigade Parade Ground successful Kolkata successful the beingness of PM Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and Chief Ministers of NDA-ruled States.
Hailing from Purba Medinipur territory of West Bengal, Mr. Adhikari served arsenic a Cabinet Minister successful the Mamata Banerjee authorities from 2011 to 2020. He has besides been elected to Lok Sabha a fig of times. Mr. Adhikari defected to BJP from Trinamool Congress successful December 2020 and from 2021 to 2026 served arsenic the Leader of Opposition.
He defeated Mamata Banerjee from Nandigram by a borderline of 1956 votes successful the 2021 Assembly elections.
West Bengal ‘suffered a nightmare’ nether Trinamool: Amit Shah
Hitting retired astatine the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC authorities of West Bengal, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said, “a concern was created successful Bengal archetypal by the communists and aboriginal Mamata Banerjee wherever it was hard to workout the close to ballot freely.”
“For 5 decades, West Bengal suffered a nightmare successful presumption of instrumentality and bid and economical development,” Mr. Shah added.
Mr. Shah, addressing reporters aft the BJP legislature enactment gathering successful Kolkata added, “The triumph successful West Bengal is important due to the fact that aft 100 years of our ideological continuity. We person a authorities from each State from Gangotri to Gangasagar. I consciousness that wherever Syama Prasad Mookerjee is there, helium would bless the Narendra Modi government.”
