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BJP's Suvendu Adhikari was officially inaugurated as the chief minister of West Bengal, becoming the first BJP leader to hold this office after upsetting incumbent West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee in her Bhabanipur bastion during the 2026 Assembly elections. 

Adhikari took the oath as the West Bengal Chief Minister on Saturday at Brigade Parade Grounds in Kolkata. Along with Adhikari, other major leaders took the oath as ministers of the first BJP government in West Bengal.

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List of MLAs sworn in as ministers along with BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari:

  • Dilip Ghosh
  • Agnimitra Paul
  • Ashok Kirtania
  • Kshudiram Tudu
  • Nisith Pramanik

All the leaders were administered their oath by the Governor. Union Home Minister Amit Shah, CM of UP Yogi Adityanath, and CM of Andhra Pradesh Chandrababu Naidu were among the many senior leaders from the NDA present at the swearing-in of West Bengal's first-ever BJP government.

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The BJP marked its history in a new way after defeating the incumbent 15-year-old TMC government in West Bengal by a large margin in the just-concluded assembly elections, one of the biggest losses for CM Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool party in her political career.

On May 5 2026, the leader of the Trinamool party, Mamata Banerjee, stated she would not resign from her position of CM, citing the result as a result of a "conspiracy" and not the verdict of the people. After the final election result, it was announced that the BJP had secured 207 of 294 seats in the state assembly.


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