Suvendu Adhikari News

A joint operation by Kolkata and UP Police has led to the arrest of Raj Singh alias Chandan in the murder of CM Suvendu Adhikari's PA, Chandra Nath Rath. Know how a UPI payment at a toll plaza and a "cloned" car led investigators to the Bihar-Purvanchal hit squad.  

According to the official, the additional security personnel and special pilot car facility allotted to Abhishek Banerjee will no longer remain in force.

West Bengal CM oath ceremony: BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari has made history as West Bengal's ninth Chief Minister. Sworn in at the Brigade Parade Ground in the presence of PM Modi, Adhikari leads the state's first BJP government.  

From Soviet icons to a saffron surge: Kolkata’s Brigade Parade Ground hosted the historic swearing-in of West Bengal’s first-ever BJP government. Discover the legacy of the Maidan and how it signaled a definitive shift in Bengal’s political center of gravity.

West Bengal oath ceremony: The event marks the end of the Trinamool Congress's 15-year tenure and follows a historic mandate where the BJP secured a decisive majority in the 294-member Assembly.

Suvendu Adhikari has been elected as the leader of the BJP Legislative Party in West Bengal in presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. 

Chandranath Rath murder: The mortal remains of Chandranath Rath, personal assistant to Suvendu Adhikari, were taken to Chandipur for last rites amid "Bharat Mata ki Jai" slogans. As an SIT probes the Madhyamgram shooting, Adhikari alleges a political conspiracy linked to recent election results.

Who was Chandranath Rath: West Bengal is on high alert following the brutal murder of Chandranath Rath, personal aide to BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari. Rath was targeted with three rounds of gunfire in a high-profile attack that has sparked a political firestorm amid 2026 post-poll unrest.  

Inspiring quotes: In Assembly elections 2026, Suvendu Adhikari simultaneously contested in Nandigram as well as Bhabanipur, the seat of Mamata Banerjee and won both.

West Bengal Assembly Election Results 2026: Why is the BJP leading in TMC strongholds? Suvendu Adhikari analyzes the "Muslim bifurcation" in Malda and Murshidabad as BJP surges past 170 seats in the 2026 West Bengal election results.  

With the BJP poised to form the government, the next question is who will be the Chief Ministerial face. During the Bengal election campaign Home Minister Amit Shah hinted at a Bengal-born and Bengali speaking CM after BJP's win.

West Bengal recorded the highest-ever voter turnout since independence with an impressive 91.66% polling in Phase-II of the Assembly elections.

With counting day on May 4 approaching, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee spent nearly four hours at an EVM strongroom at midnight amid allegations of tampering, prompting BJP's Suvendu Adhikari to declare she was being "kept under surveillance" as both sides traded accusations and the Election Commission dismissed all concerns.

Chief Minister Mamata Banejee made job promises to the I-PAC’s Kolkata office employees and claimed that she had already discussed the matter with the party's General Secretary and Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee.

However, he added, the party leadership is yet to decide whether any one of them would be the party candidate from Panihati Assembly Constituency in North 24 Parganas district, where the victim and her parents are voters.

West Bengal Assembly Polls 2026: Suvendu Adhikari has taken the political battle directly to Mamata Banerjee’s stronghold, Bhabanipur, aiming to repeat his Nandigram upset. The high-stakes contest will test whether he can truly turn his bold claim of making her a “former Chief Minister” into reality.  

 Suvendu Adhikari said he would take legal action against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, saying that the time given to her to respond to a defamation notice has expired.

The move from the BJP's Nandigram MLA came a day after Mamata Banerjee again wrote a letter to the CEC, alleging that the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state was being carried out with the sole objective of deleting and excluding names of existing voters, rather than correcting errors or including new voters.

Nandigram is the assembly constituency of West Bengal Leader of the Opposition and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, from where he won in the 2021 Assembly polls. 

West Bengal Assembly Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's initiative, particularly the survey on demographic changes and the warning to expel infiltrators from India.