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West Bengal Governor R. N. Ravi has dissolved the State’s Legislative Assembly with effect from May 7, 2026.
“In workout of the powerfulness conferred connected maine by sub-clause (b) of Clause (2) of Article 174 of the Constitution of India, I hereby dissolve the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal with effect from 7th of May 2026,” a gazette notification issued by the bid of the Governor said.
The 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly which was sworn successful aft the 2021 assembly elections present stands dissolved. The improvement is important due to the fact that Mamata Banerjee had declared that she would not resign arsenic Chief Minister of the State.
In the precocious concluded Assembly polls, the BJP ended 15 years of Trinamool Congress regularisation by winning 207 seats successful the 294-member house. The Trinamool was reduced to 80 seats.
The swearing successful of the archetypal BJP authorities successful West Bengal volition beryllium held astatine the Brigade Parade Grounds connected Saturday (May 9, 2026). Newly elected BJP legislators volition conscionable connected Friday (May 8, 2026) astatine 4p.m. The BJP has appointed Union Home Minister Amit Shah arsenic the cardinal perceiver who volition preside implicit the meeting. BJP person Suvendu Adhikari, who defeated Mamata Banerjee, is simply a beforehand runner for the station of Chief Minister.
Mr. Shah is apt to get successful Kolkata connected Thursday (May 7, 2026) night. He volition instrumentality banal of the instrumentality and bid concern pursuing incidents of unit aft the polls. On Wednesday (May 6, 2026) night, Chandranath Rath, the idiosyncratic adjunct of Suvendu Adhikari was changeable dormant astatine Madhyamgram successful North 24 Parganas.
