PM Narendra Modi on the dais as West Bengal Governor R N Ravi administers the oath of office to CM Suvendu Adhikari in Kolkata. (Photo: Partha Paul) 3 min read Kolkata May 10, 2026 04:30 AM IST First published on: May 10, 2026 at 04:30 AM IST Five days after the BJP scripted history with a landslide victory in the West Bengal Assembly elections, Suvendu Adhikari, who led the party’s ground offensive that ended 15 years of TMC rule, was sworn in Saturday as the state’s first BJP Chief Minister. The oath-taking ceremony, the first by a Chief Minister at Kolkata ’s iconic Brigade Parade Ground, was attended among others by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Ministers Rajnath Singh , Amit Shah , Nitin Gadkari , Shivraj Singh Chouhan , and all NDA and BJP CMs including N Chandrababu Naidu , Yogi Adityanath , Himanta Biswa Sarma and Devendra Fadnavis .…