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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and West Bengal Governor R.N. Ravi with newly sworn-in West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari and state cabinet ministers Dilip Ghosh, Agnimitra Paul, Nisith Pramanik, Ashok Kirtania and Kshudiram Tudu during a ceremony in Kolkata on Saturday, May 9, 2026. (Photo: IANS/Kuntal Chakrabarty)

New BJP MLA’s chart out road to governance in Bengal

Newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party legislators in West Bengal said women’s safety, civic infrastructure and improving law and order would be among the top priorities of the state’s first BJP government.

Bengal’s BJP Surge Reshapes India-Bangladesh Equation

Any agreement on the Teesta River, in particular, required the concurrence of the government in West Bengal, whose leadership under Mamata Banerjee consistently resisted arrangements it believed would hurt northern North Bengal’s irrigation and agricultural interests.