Current Affairs - Awards and Honours - Discussion

Suvendu Adhikari became the first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Chief Minister of West Bengal after taking oath on May 9, 2026. His appointment followed the BJP’s historic victory in the 2026 Assembly elections, where the party secured 207 seats in the 294-member Assembly, ending the Trinamool Congress’s 15-year rule. The swearing-in ceremony took place at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior NDA leaders. Suvendu Adhikari had earlier joined the BJP in December 2020 after leaving the Trinamool Congress and later emerged as one of the party’s strongest leaders in West Bengal politics.