Kolkata, May 8: Senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Friday has been elected as the Leader of the BJP Legislature Party.
With it, Adhikari is going to be new Bengal CM in a first, from the BJP.
BJP sources said Adhikari's name was proposed at the legislature party meeting here and formally announced by Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the presence of newly elected BJP MLAs and senior party leaders.
Subsequently, Mohan Charan Majhi, Chief Minister of Odisha who has been assigned as Co-observer to choose the Leader of the BJP Legislature Party, seconded the party's resolve.
The swearing-in ceremony of the new BJP government will be held at the Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata on May 9.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union HM Shah and Chief Ministers of NDA-ruled states are likely to be invited to the magnificent ceremony.
Earlier in the day, BJP’s West Bengal unit chief Samik Bhattacharya had proposed Adhikari’s name for the top post during crucial meeting.
Adhikari, widely seen as the BJP’s firebrand leader in Bengal politics, won from both the Nandigram and Bhabanipur Assembly constituencies, emphatically beating incumbent CM Mamata Banerjee in Bhabanipur.
