The Bharatiya Janata Party’s West Bengal President Samik Bhattacharya on Wednesday said the oath-taking ceremony of the new BJP government will be held on Saturday. The legislative party meeting is scheduled to be held on Friday evening. In this meeting, the leader of the legislative party will be elected. Union Home Minister Amit Shah is expected to attend this meet.
“The new BJP government will take oath on May 9 at 10 am,” Bhattacharya told mediapersons in Kolkata. He said that the oath-taking ceremony, to be held at the Brigade Parade Grounds in Kolkata on the birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and other senior leaders of the party.
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The preparations within the State administration have reached a peak ahead of the swearing-in of the new government. Riding on a massive anti-incumbency wave against the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government, the BJP on Monday recorded a historic landslide victory in the Assembly elections. The saffron party will be forming its government in the eastern State for the first time.
The BJP’s win ends 15 years of TMC rule and marks a watershed moment for the party as it dismantled Banerjee’s bastion through an all-gun blazing election campaign. The party won 207 seats, reducing the Trinamool to just 80 in the 294-member West Bengal Assembly.
The Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, along with representatives of the Election Commission, on Wednesday met with Governor RN Ravi with the Gazette notification of the results of all 293 Assembly constituencies in the State.
The Election Commission ordered re-election of the Falta Assembly constituency on May 21.
Published on May 6, 2026