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BJP legislature party leader Suvendu Adhikari. File
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Suvendu Adhikari was on Friday (May 8, 2026) elected the leader of the BJP legislature party in West Bengal, and will take oath as the first BJP Chief Minister of West Bengal. The decision was taken at the BJP legislature meeting in Kolkata in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. 

Mr. Adhikari will be sworn in as the Chief Minister of Bengal on Saturday (May 9, 2026) at the Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata.

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Mr. Shah, who presided over BJP legislature party meeting said that all the proposals were received in favour of Suvendu Adhikari.

Mr. Adhikari, 57, contested and won from both Nandigram and Bhabanipur seats in the recently concluded assembly polls. He defeated former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from Bhabanipur by a margin of 15, 115 votes.

He is all set to take oath as the CM on Saturday (May 9) at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata in the presence of PM Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and Chief Ministers of NDA-ruled States.

Hailing from Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal, Mr. Adhikari served as a Cabinet Minister in the Mamata Banerjee government from 2011 to 2020. He has also been elected to Lok Sabha a number of times. Mr. Adhikari defected to BJP from Trinamool Congress in December 2020 and from 2021 to 2026 served as the Leader of Opposition. 

He defeated Mamata Banerjee from Nandigram by a margin of 1956 votes in the 2021 Assembly elections.

West Bengal ‘suffered a nightmare’ under Trinamool: Amit Shah

Hitting out at the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government of West Bengal, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said, “a situation was created in Bengal first by the communists and later Mamata Banerjee where it was difficult to exercise the right to vote freely.”

“For five decades, West Bengal suffered a nightmare in terms of law and order and economic development,” Mr. Shah added.

Mr. Shah, addressing reporters after the BJP legislature party meeting in Kolkata added, “The victory in West Bengal is significant because after 100 years of our ideological continuity. We have a government from every State from Gangotri to Gangasagar. I feel that wherever Syama Prasad Mookerjee is there, he would bless the Narendra Modi government.”

Published – May 08, 2026 05:23 pm IST



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Tariff rate hasn’t been increased, according to Suvendu Adhikari. (File)

Kolkata:

BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari accused the TMC government in West Bengal of “looting” power consumers, asserting that the state-run utility has “rearranged” tariff slabs, which resulted in an increase in electricity bills during the current summer season.

Adhikari, the leader of the opposition in the West Bengal assembly, termed the alleged move by WBSEDCL as “shrewd and cunning” to “extract more” from consumers.

According to him, the tariff rate hasn’t been increased, while the existing slabs have been rearranged in such a manner that consumers will end up paying significantly higher bills.

The West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (WBSEDCL) has been accused of rearranging tariff slabs, potentially resulting in an increase in bills by 20 per cent for consumption of 300 units.

The utility has a consumer base of 2.03 crore.

In a post on X, Adhikari also claimed that the revised tariff slabs for the quarterly electric bills for the May-July period reveal inconsistencies, with consumers receiving different slab structures.

To illustrate the potential impact, Adhikari provided two scenarios based on the revised tariff slabs.

“Scenario 1 – where the electricity consumption is 300 units. Consumers would have paid Rs 1,948.60 according to the old slab. But due to the rearrangement of slab, consumers would end up paying Rs 2,351.18,” he said on X.

Similarly, in scenario 2, where consumption is 1000 units, consumers would have paid Rs 7,456.04 under the old slab but would now get a bill of Rs 8,805.18.

Neither state power secretary Santanu Basu nor the WBSEDCL spokesperson responded to the allegation when contacted.

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